Concomitant VTE increased risks for mortality and hemorrhage in older patients with cancer, with risk varying by cancer type

摘要

Clinicians have likened decisions about anticoagulation to walking antightrope—a misstep to one side increases the risk for bleeding and anmisstep to the other increases the risk for thrombosis.nThe study by Gross and colleagues emphasizes how often the fall intonbleeding occurs. This well-done inception cohort study clarifies severalnkey issues about older patients with VTE and cancer. It confirms thatnconcomitant VTE is an ominous prognostic marker in older patients withnsome types of cancer and clarifies the mechanism for this observation.