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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 29.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Cardiol. 2016 Dec 1;1(9):1066–1072. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.2132

Table 1.

Milestones in Oncocardiology

Year Milestones
1963 Discovery of daunorubicin (1st anthracycline)1,2
1966 Early report of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxic effects3
1977 Anthracycline cardiotoxic effects is dependent on the cumulative dose4,63
1980 Efforts to reduce anthracycline-induced cardiotoxic effects through dose limitation, chemical protection, change in formulation, or change in delivery schedule64
1998 Early report of trastuzumab (herceptin)-induced cardiotoxic effects24
2007 Reports of multikinase inhibitors causing hypertension, heart failure, vascular occlusion40
2012 Discovery of Topoisomerase IIβ as the molecular basis of anthracycline-induced cardiotoxic effects15