Idiopathic venous thromboembolic disease is associated with a poorer prognosis from subsequent malignancy

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 840-842

  Jones, A ^a   Stockton, D L ^b   Simpson, A J ^a   Murchison, J T ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Idiopathic venous thromboembolism; Malignancy; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 70249087269     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6605210     Document Type: Article

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