Association between cancer types, cancer treatments, and venous thromboembolism in medical oncology patients

Clinical Advances in Hematology and Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Streiff, Michael B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANASTROZOLE; APIXABAN; ASPARAGINASE; BEVACIZUMAB; CERTOPARIN; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DALTEPARIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ENOXAPARIN; FLUOROURACIL; HEPARIN; LENALIDOMIDE; NADROPARIN; NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; TAMOXIFEN; THALIDOMIDE; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BREAST CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MESOTHELIOMA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; PANCREAS CANCER; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; FEMALE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; METASTASIS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84879174788     PISSN: 15430790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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