Examples based on proposed universal definition of cardiotoxicity
| Cardiotoxicity | Timing | Demographic | Source | Affected substrate |
| Doxorubicin | Early | Adult | Anthracycline | Cardiomyopathy |
| Late | Paediatric | Anthracycline | Cardiomyopathy | |
| Carfilzomib | Acute | Adult | VEGF | Hypertension |
| PD1/PDL1 | Late | Adult | Immune | Myocarditis |
PD1, programmed cell death-1; PDL1, programmed death-ligand 1 VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor.