Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer


Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients with Cancer
Slides from a presentation at ASH 2011 and transcribed comments from a recent interview with Kenneth A Bauer, MD (1/26/12)

Khorana AA et al. Higher incidence of venous thromboembolism in the outpatient versus the inpatient setting among US cancer patients. Proc ASH 2011;Abstract 674.

Dr Bauer is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Hematology Section of the VA Boston Healthcare System and Director of Thrombosis Clinical Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.