VTE common in patients with cancer of the brain and pancreas

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has been known for some time to occur frequently in people with cancer, however, a systematic review of cohort studies just published in PLoS Medicine concluded that people with brain and pancreatic cancer have a noticeably higher risk of VTE than those with other cancer types. 

This work was originally carried out in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health as a BMedSci project by Freesia Horsted before the literature search was updated and expanded last year. It was supervised by Dr. Matthew Grainge and Dr. Joe West and is part of a larger body of work being carried out within the Division to identify which cancer patients are at most risk of VTE using linked healthcare databases.

For more information, please see the original press release from 2010.