How Common Is Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Cancer?

Patients show an elevated risk for myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke 6 months after cancer diagnosis.

The association of cancer with arterial and venous thromboembolic disease has long been known. To learn more about associations with arterial thromboembolism specifically, researchers used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) dataset linked to Medicare claims to identify patients with newly diagnosed breast, lung, prostate, colorectal, bladder, pancreatic, or gastric cancer or non-Hodgkin lymphoma from 2002 to 2012.

Almost 280,000 cancer patients were identified and individually matched by birth year, sex, race, and some comorbidities to cancer-free control patients identified from Medicare data (median age, 74; 48% men; median follow-up: cases, 2.8 years; controls, 5.0 years).

At 6 months after diagnosis, cumulative inciden…

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Joel M. Gore, MD

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Grant/Research SupportNIH–National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Joel M. Gore, MD

Disclosures

Grant/Research SupportNIH–National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

How Common Is Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Cancer?

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