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Whereas cardiac remodeling promotes cancer progression, tumor growth suppresses cardiac hypertrophy and reduces fibrosis deposition. Whether these two opposing interactions are connected awaits to be determined. In addition, it is not known whether cancer affects solely the heart, or if other organs are affected as well. To explore the dual interaction between heart failure and cancer, we studied the human genetic disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) using the MDX mouse model. We analyzed fibrosis and cardiac function as well as molecular parameters by multiple methods in the heart, diaphragm, lungs, skeletal muscles, and tumors derived from MDX and control mice. Surprisingly, cardiac dysfunction in MDX mice failed to promote murine cancer cell growth. In contrast, tumor-bearing MDX mice displayed reduced fibrosis in the heart and skeletal and diaphragm muscles, resulting in improved cardiac function. The latter is at least partially mediated via M2 macrophage recruitment to the heart and diaphragm muscles. Collectively, our data support the notion that the effect of heart failure on tumor promotion is independent of the improved cardiac function in tumor-bearing mice. Reduced fibrosis in tumor-bearing MDX mice stems from the suppression of new fibrosis synthesis and the removal of existing fibrosis. 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