What is cardio-oncology?

Some cancer treatments may cause damage to your heart or put you at risk for heart disease. At the Ross Heart Hospital, our goal is to lessen or eliminate that risk as you complete your cancer treatments.

The multidisciplinary cardio-oncology team includes specialists from Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) and the Ohio State Heart and Vascular Center who come together to provide care for heart failure through services like electrophysiology and cardiac imaging.

Our approach

By working together, our physicians at the OSUCCC – James and the Ross Heart Hospital created a holistic approach to caring for patients with cancer before, during and after treatments that improves the patient’s quality of life.

Our program combines exercise, calming activities and other therapies to address heart-related issues that sometimes result from cancer treatments. The cardio therapies are personalized for each patient, and promote improved physical and mental health.

The key to a patient’s success is collaboration among oncologists, cardiologists and patients.

Research

Over the past two decades, powerful immunotherapy drugs that work to alter a patient’s immune system have proven effective in fighting cancer. During the same period, however, doctors have seen an increase in patients experiencing cardiovascular problems.

Ibrutinib is a targeted oral therapy that has transformed the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia so that this disease can be more effectively managed. The drug has also shown tremendous promise for many other cancers. However, some patients treated with this revolutionary therapy develop cardiovascular side effects, including abnormal and dangerous heart rhythms.

Daniel Addison, MD, co-director of the Cardio-Oncology program at the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, is leading a study called Early Detection and Mechanisms of Novel Cancer Immunotherapy Associated With Cardio-Toxicity. The study will identify people who are at higher risk for heart problems related to ibrutinib. It will also use heart imaging and blood tests to identify early markers of heart damage and develop treatment strategies for patients with signs of heart damage related to ibrutinib use.

The goal of the clinical trial is to develop a customizable strategy in treating patients and possibly apply these techniques to other new cancer immunotherapy drugs.

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Sakima Smith, MD
4.9 out of 5

Sakima Smith, MD

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Physician

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Outpatient Care New Albany
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care New Albany
(614) 293-7677
Garrie Haas, MD
4.9 out of 5

Garrie Haas, MD

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
(614) 293-7677
Daniel Addison, MD

Daniel Addison, MD

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
(614) 685-7915
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
4.9 out of 5

Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD

  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Outpatient Care Upper Arlington
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care Upper Arlington
(614) 293-7677
Philip Binkley, MD

Philip Binkley, MD

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
(614) 293-7677
Mahmoud Houmsse, MD
4.8 out of 5

Mahmoud Houmsse, MD

  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Outpatient Care Upper Arlington
  • Heart and Vascular Bellefontaine
  • Outpatient Care Dublin
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care Dublin
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care Upper Arlington
(614) 293-7677
Ajay Vallakati, MBBS
4.9 out of 5

Ajay Vallakati, MBBS

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • East Hospital
  • Outpatient Care Dublin
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care Dublin
  • Heart and Vascular Care in East Hospital
(614) 293-7677
Rami Kahwash, MD
4.9 out of 5

Rami Kahwash, MD

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Outpatient Care New Albany
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care New Albany
(614) 293-7677
John Hummel, MD
4.9 out of 5

John Hummel, MD

  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
(614) 293-7677
Bhavana Konda, MD, MPH
4.9 out of 5

Bhavana Konda, MD, MPH

  • Medical Oncology
  • Physician

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Martha Morehouse Outpatient Care
(614) 293-8629
Richard Gumina, MD, PHD
4.9 out of 5

Richard Gumina, MD, PHD

  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Outpatient Care New Albany
  • Heart and Vascular in Outpatient Care New Albany
(614) 293-7677
Ragavendra Baliga, MBBS
4.8 out of 5

Ragavendra Baliga, MBBS

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
(614) 293-7677
Ray Hershberger, MD
4.9 out of 5

Ray Hershberger, MD

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
  • Ambulatory Care Center in Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital
(614) 293-7677
Adam Potter, MD, PHD

Adam Potter, MD, PHD

  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Physician

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
(614) 685-7915
Jason Prosek, MD
5 out of 5

Jason Prosek, MD

  • Nephrology
  • Physician

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
  • Outpatient Care East
  • Brain and Spine Hospital
  • Nephrology in Outpatient Care East
(614) 293-4837
Sumithira Vasu, MD
4.9 out of 5

Sumithira Vasu, MD

  • Hematology
  • Physician

Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine

Accepting new patients
(614) 293-3196
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