Venous Thromboembolism in Cancer Patients on Simultaneous and Palliative Care.

ABSTRACT: Simultaneous care represents the ideal integration between early supportive and palliative care in cancer patients under active antineoplastic treatment. Cancer patients require a composite clinical, social and psychological management that can be effective only if care continuity from hospital to home is guaranteed and if such a care takes place early in the course of the disease, combining standard oncology care and palliative care. In these settings, venous thromboembolism (VTE) represents a difficult medical challenge, for the requirement of acute treatments and for the strong impact on anticancer therapies that might be delayed or, even, totally discontinued. Moreover, cancer patients not only display high rates of VTE occurrence/recurrence but are also more prone to bleeding and this

SUBMITTER: Riondino S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7281278 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature