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Screening for Occult Cancer in Unprovoked Venous Thromboembolism

Author(s) -

Marc Carrier,

Alejandro LazoLangner,

Sudeep Shivakumar,

Vicky Tagalakis,

Ryan Zarychanski,

Susan Solymoss,

Nathalie Routhier,

James D. Douketis,

Kim Danovitch,

Agnes Y. Lee,

Grégoire Le Gal,

Philip S. Wells,

Daniel J. Corsi,

Tim Ramsay,

Doug Coyle,

Isabelle Chag,

Zahra Kassam,

Hardy Tao,

Marc Rodger

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1506623

Subject(s) - medicine , occult , cancer screening , cancer , randomization , randomized controlled trial , radiology , surgery , pathology , alternative medicine

Venous thromboembolism may be the earliest sign of cancer. Currently, there is a great diversity in practices regarding screening for occult cancer in a person who has an unprovoked venous thromboembolism. We sought to assess the efficacy of a screening strategy for occult cancer that included comprehensive computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis in patients who had a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism.

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