Symptomatic and incidental venous thromboembolic disease are both associated with mortality in patients with prostate cancer.

The association between malignancy and venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) is well established. The independent impact of VTE, both symptomatic and incidental, on survival in patients with prostate cancer is not known. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to evaluate the effect of VTE of surviv...

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Main Authors: Shruti Chaturvedi, Surbhi Sidana, Paul Elson, Alok A Khorana, Keith R McCrae
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4134135?pdf=render