Anticoagulation in Patients With Cancer

Gregory Piazza · 2024

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Gregory Piazza reviews blood thinning treatment for patients with cancer in a 2024 article. Cancer raises the risk of clots in veins and lungs, and also of an irregular heart rhythm. Both call for anticoagulant drugs, yet cancer also raises bleeding risk, so choices are delicate.

Piazza explains how inflammation, heart damage, and cancer drugs promote rhythm problems and clots. Newer oral drugs have become a more convenient option than older vitamin K blockers for many patients. The review lays out pathways for safe and effective treatment in a group where stroke and bleeding risks pull in opposite directions.

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CREATORGregory Piazza
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE4 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11707376

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