TY  - JOUR
AU  - Berger, Anne-Katrin
AU  - Singh, Hans Martin
AU  - Werft, Wiebke
AU  - Muckenhuber, Alexander
AU  - Sprick, Martin
AU  - Trumpp, Andreas
AU  - Weichert, Wilko
AU  - Jäger, Dirk
AU  - Springfeld, Christoph
TI  - High prevalence of incidental and symptomatic venous thromboembolic events in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer under palliative chemotherapy: A retrospective cohort study.
JO  - Pancreatology
VL  - 17
IS  - 4
SN  - 1424-3903
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - DKFZ-2017-04018
SP  - 629 - 634
PY  - 2017
AB  - Pancreatic cancer patients are at high risk for venous thromboembolic events (VTEs), and chemotherapy is a known additional risk factor. In this context, there is a controversial discussion whether prophylactic anticoagulation should be offered to all outpatients receiving chemotherapy.In this retrospective study, we analyzed incidental and symptomatic VTEs in 150 pancreatic cancer patients receiving either gemcitabine-based chemotherapy or chemotherapy according to the FOLFIRINOX protocol.VTEs were identified in 25
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:28462862
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.pan.2017.04.012
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/127996
ER  -