You are 100% right @Rose18. I was lucky that I had been having echos during treatment so they had a baseline to compare to. The problem though can be knowing what to look out for in the years after treatment. Pre treatment I had never had any heart issues so had never seen a cardiologist. I was not being specifically watched for heart issues even though we have a family history which I now know can makes us more susceptible to damage from chemo. I was lucky that my main symptom was fainting which mean that it was looked at more quickly. More subtle symptoms like the shortness of breath is a bit more of a grey area and it is easy to put it down to recovery from treatment. Hopefully more people will become aware of the early warning signs and get checked out before they have a more serious issue.
