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Venous thromboembolism and mortality in breast cancer: cohort study with systematic review and meta-analysis
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Background: Breast cancer patients are at an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, current evidence as to whether VTE increases the risk of mortality in breast cancer patients is conflicting. We present data from a large cohort of patients from the UK and pool these with previous data from a systematic review.
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Methods: Using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) dataset, we identified a cohort of 13,202 breast cancer patients, of whom 611 were diagnosed ...
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12885-017-3719-1
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Cancer Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Pages:
- 747
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-10-30
- DOI:
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1471-2407
- ISSN:
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1471-2407
- Pmid:
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29126386
- Source identifiers:
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745904
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- English
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pubs:745904
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uuid:3c995af0-3078-4a8c-b58c-b12062f72c78
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- pubs:745904
- Deposit date:
- 2017-11-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Khan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s) 2017. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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