Report from the 60th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

Presenters at the recent meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH; December 1–4, 2018, in San Diego, CA) reported the latest research in hematology. Here, NEJM Journal Watch Oncology and Hematology Associate Editor Dr. David Green describes the key findings. The original abstracts can be found on the ASH website.

Anticoagulant-Induced Bleeding in Cancer-Associated Thrombosis

The management of thrombosis in patients with malignancies is complicated by anticoagulant-induced bleeding, which might occur more often in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies (GIMs). Houghton and colleagues studied 604 patients in the Mayo Clinic VTE Registry with cancer-associated thrombosis (CAT) of whom 124 had GIMs (abstract 362). CAT patients were…