Black Patients Experience Highest Rates of Cancer-associated Venous Thromboembolism

We examined whether black cancer patients are at a higher risk of VTE and whether these differences are present in specific cancer types. Design: A retrospective study was performed in the largest safety net hospital of New England using a cohort of cancer patients characterized by a substantial number of nonwhites. Results: We identified 16,498 subjects with solid organ and hematologic malignancies from 2004 to 2018. Among them, we found 186 unique incident VTE events, of which the majority of the events accrued within the first 2 years of cancer diagnosis. Overall, blacks showed a 3-fold higher incidence of VTE (1.8%) compared with whites (0.6%; P
Source: American Journal of Clinical Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Original Articles: Complications of Cancer Source Type: research