Does anticoagulation prevent thrombosis in people with cancer and central venous catheters?
This Cochrane Review update evaluates the role of anticoagulation in preventing thrombosis among cancer patients with central venous catheters.
Central venous catheter (CVC) placement increases the risk of thrombosis in people with cancer. Thrombosis often necessitates the removal of the CVC, resulting in treatment delays and thrombosis-related morbidity and mortality. This is an update of the Cochrane Review published in 2014.
Kahale et al. (Fri,) studied this question.