Bleeding may be a sign of bowel cancer not just a side-effect of blood-thinning drugs

(European Society of Cardiology) Patients who are being treated with blood-thinning drugs for irregular heart beat should always be investigated for bowel cancer if they experience gastrointestinal bleeding, say the authors of a study published in the European Heart Journal. A study of nearly 125,500 Danish atrial fibrillation patients shows those who experienced bleeding were between 11 and 24 times more likely to be diagnosed with bowel cancer, compared to patients who did not have bleeding.
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