Risk evaluation and monitoring of prophylaxis and treatment in tumor-associated venous thromboembolism / 中华检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Being one of the most important complications and also one of the leading cavses of death, venous thromboembolism ( VTE) could significantly increase the morbidity and mortality of patients with tumor.Therefore, accurate assessment of VTE risk and early prophylaxis according to the risk level are important to reduce the incidence of VTE, as well as to improve the quality of life and disease prognosisin patients with cancer.In this paper, we introduced the laboratory indicators that could be used for risk assessment of tumor-associated VTE and monitoring of prophylaxis and treatment in tumor patients with VTE.We aimed to strengthen the awareness of tumor-associated VTE and expected to provide help for clinical practice.