title: Idiopathic venous thromboembolic disease is associated with a poorer prognosis from subsequent malignancy.
abstract: METHODS
  We carried out a retrospective study of prognosis in Scottish patients diagnosed with cancer within 5 years after a venous thromboembolism (VTE).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Prognosis was significantly poorer if a VTE occurred up to 2 years before cancer diagnosis, most notably if the cancer was diagnosed in the 6 months after a VTE.
authors: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK. annejones2000@hotmail.com
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Jones
authors: D L
authors: DL
authors: Stockton
authors: A J
authors: AJ
authors: Simpson
authors: J T
authors: JT
authors: Murchison
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016019:Survival Analysis; D054556:Venous Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*