Pregnancy-related venous thromboembolism and risk of occult cancer

Anette Tarp Hansen; Katalin Veres; Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó; Vera Ehrenstein; Paolo Prandoni; Henrik Toft Sørensen

doi:10.1182/bloodadvances.2017010231

Pregnancy-related venous thromboembolism and risk of occult cancer

Blood Adv. 2017 Oct 19;1(23):2059-2062. doi: 10.1182/bloodadvances.2017010231. eCollection 2017 Oct 24.

Authors

Anette Tarp Hansen^{1

2}, Katalin Veres¹, Erzsébet Horváth-Puhó¹, Vera Ehrenstein¹, Paolo Prandoni³, Henrik Toft Sørensen¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Section for Hematology and Coagulation, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark; and.
³ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Sciences, Vascular Medicine Unit, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

Abstract

The cancer risk during the first year after a pregnancy-related venous thromboembolism episode is higher than expected.An aggressive search for cancer in women with pregnancy-related venous thromboembolism is probably not warranted, due to low absolute risk.