Characteristics of patients with haematological and breast cancer (1996-2009) who died of heart failure-related causes after cancer therapy.

The profile of IAHF patients who died of HF-related causes after cancer treatment matched the current profile of HF in the general population (over half were aged ≥70 years). However, NIAHF were younger (62% were aged ≤69 years), female patients with breast cancer that died of HF-related causes before hospital admission for HF-related causes-a group that may have been undiagnosed or undertreated until death.