Cardiology Care During and After Cancer Treatment

Join Besiana Liti, D.O., a board-certified non-invasive cardiologist, with the Elliot Heart and Vascular Center to learn about her specialty in cardio-oncology.

Dr. Liti, a cardiologist with the Elliot Heart and Vascular Center, will explain how her specialty field of cardio-oncology monitors and treats cancer patients during and after radiation and chemotherapy. She will also highlight the shared risk factors that increase the risk of both cardiac and cancer diagnosis. A question-and-answer session will follow.

“In the realm of non-invasive cardiology, a new field has opened up, which is cardio-oncology, a specialty in which cardiologists focus on taking care of patients’ cardiac needs who are undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment for their cancers or patients who have had radiation treatment previously and need some form of assessment of their cardiac health,” she says. “We now know that people who have cancer have a higher risk of cardiac complications after treatment, while people with cardiac disease also have a higher risk of cancer because of shared risk factors, such as obesity and smoking.”

As Dr. Liti explained, with the establishment of cardio-oncology as a subspecialty, “we are now recognizing that cancer and its treatments are causing short-term and long-term cardiac complications.”

About Dr. Liti

Dr. Besiana Liti is a cardiologist with Elliot Cardiovascular Consultants and an expert in the field of cardio-oncology. She started the first cardio-oncology program in NH in 2018. She brought her expertise to the Elliot in February 2024 when she joined the Elliot Cardiovascular Consultants. She is board-certified in general cardiology, echo and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Liti earned a B.S. in physiology and pre-med with minors in chemistry and psychology at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL before joining the Northshore Research Institute in Evanston IL to work on NIH funded genetic study grants. She subsequently moved to Philadelphia and received a Doctor of Osteopathy degree at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed an internal medicine residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, MA and a cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Connecticut/Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT.

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