Black Patients Experience Highest Rates of Cancer-associated Venous Thromboembolism.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cancer patients are at a higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) than the general population. In the general population, blacks are at a higher risk of VTE compared with whites. The influence of race on cancer-associated VTE remains unexplored. 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 with

SUBMITTER: Addo-Tabiri NO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9743359 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature