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Cancer Blood Clots - Articles
BLOOD-CLOTS and CANCER
by
Whidbeywoman
Posted
Wed 11 Mar 2009 12:00am
RON HAS A BLOOD CLOT! We didn't know it, but cancer patients are at risk for this problem. Last Thursday Ron started to have pain behind his kneecap. It felt like.... Tests at the hospital confirmed their suspicions: Blood clot. Scary Stuff! Ron was given two shots at the ER last night, and another at the doctor's office this morning. We have
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Blood clots, blood clots :(
by
Allen
Posted
Thu 22 Jan 2009 5:14pm
It took the ER nurses, technicians, and doctor 7 hours to check me out. The conclusion was that I had several blood clots in my legs. The CAT scan didn't show any clots in my..., where the doctor and nurses and techs there tried to figure out why I had the clots. They asked if I had recently been on long (5-7 hours) airplane flights in which I wasn't
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The Clot Wars – New Rivals to Warfarin as Blood Clot Preventer
by
Ed H.
Posted
Tue 07 Sep 2010 2:33pm
For investors who have been asking themselves whether medium-size pharmaceutical companies can survive in an industry that has had recent mega-mergers, the answer seems to be yes. At least for Bristol-Myers Squibb.
The company’s experimental anticoagulant drug apixaban worked better than aspirin in preventing stroke and systemic blood clots
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What Causes Blood Clots?
by
Kodjoworkout
Posted
Wed 23 May 2012 7:00am
Blood is an essential fluid that runs throughout the body and its main function is to carry nutrients and supply them to various organs and cells in the body. Blood runs through blood vessels consisting of veins and arteries. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry pure blood pumped from the heart, and veins carry the impure blood fro ...
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Study Links Genentech’s Avastin to Blood Clots
by
Ulysee W.
Posted
Tue 28 Oct 2008 9:56pm
A new study in today’s Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that patients treated with Avastin (bevacizumab) and chemotherapy had an increased risk of developing blood clots compared to patients receiving chemotherapy alone. The data are not entirely original since a sub-set of these data were presented at ASCO in 2005.
This is really
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Study finds no blood clot risk with hormone patch
by
Andrea
Posted
Mon 10 Jan 2011 12:00am
of hormones decreases the risk of blood clots, but ok, now we have an "official" study to back it up.
However, this is a prime example of misinformation: paragraph 3 of the article says "The number of women using HRT plummeted in 2002 after a large U.S. clinical trial found that women on estrogen-plus-progesterone pills had higher risks of blood clots
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Study IDs Risk Factors for Blood Clots After Hip Surgery
by
Medline Plus
Posted
Tue 21 Sep 2010 11:00am
also at risk for blood clot complications. In addition, they found that patients previously hospitalized for cancer treatment were not at increased risk, and that patients...
TUESDAY, Sept. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified risk factors for the development of potentially fatal blood clots following total hip replacement surgery
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Inflammatory bowel disease increases the risk of blood clots
by
totalhealth
Posted
Mon 21 Mar 2011 12:06pm
Research published online by the Journal Gut indicates that Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) can double the risk of potentially fatal blood clots (venous thromboembolism... identified that the 20 years or younger age range had the greatest risk of VTE compared with all other age groups. The likelihood of a fatal blood clot in this age group remains very
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Women at Risk for Deadly Blood Clots
by
Cathy T.
Posted
Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:07pm
Seeking Markers for Menopausal Women at Risk for a Deadly Blood Clot
Despite the fact that the disorder is rare, it increases exponentially during menopause and can be deadly. The hormone trials conducted thus far, ...
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