Screening for occult cancer in unprovoked venous thromboembolism

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 697-704

  Carrier, Marc ^a,c   Lazo Langner, Alejandro ^d,e   Shivakumar, Sudeep ^f   Tagalakis, Vicky ^g   Zarychanski, Ryan ^j   Solymoss, Susan ^h   Routhier, Nathalie ⁱ   Douketis, James ^k   Danovitch, Kim ^a   Lee, Agnes Y ^l   Le Gal, Gregoire ^a   Wells, Philip S ^a   Corsi, Daniel J ^b   Ramsay, Timothy ^b   Coyle, Doug ^b   Chagnon, Isabelle ⁱ   Kassam, Zahra ^e   Tao, Hardy ^c   Rodger, Marc A ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b CDC   (United States)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^k MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; OCCULT CANCER; OPEN STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNPROVOKED VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PELVIS; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PELVIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84939480287     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1506623     Document Type: Article

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