A heart-lung pump is not the same as a ventilator. A ventilator moves air in and out of the lungs when a person cannot get enough oxygen on their own—it does not pump or directly oxygenate blood.

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As patients with lung cancer live longer, the risk of long-term cardiac side effects of radiation therapy has been increasing, despite advances that reduce the radiation dose to the heart.