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Venous Thromboembolic Disease

2011; National Comprehensive Cancer; Volume: 9; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.6004/jnccn.2011.0062

1540-1413

Michael B. Streiff, Paula Bockenstedt, Spero R. Cataland, C Chesney, Charles Eby, John Fanikos, Patrick Fogarty, Shuwei Gao, Julio García‐Aguilar, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Hani Hassoun, Paul C. Hendrie, Bjorn Holmstrom, Kimberly Jones, Nicole M. Kuderer, Jason T. Lee, Michael Millenson, Anne T. Neff, Thomas L. Ortel, Judy L. Smith, Gary C. Yee, Anaadriana Zakarija,

Neutropenia and Cancer Infections

OverviewVenous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common and life-threatening condition in patients with cancer. 1,2esults from a retrospective study of 66,106 patients hospitalized with adult neutropenic cancer showed that 2.7% to 12.1% of these patients, depending on the type of malignancy, experienced VTE during their first hospitalization. 1These NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) specifically outline strategies to prevent and treat VTE in adult patients either diagnosed with cancer or for whom cancer is clinically suspected.