{"id":756,"date":"2016-04-18T09:37:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/?p=756"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:38:45","slug":"economic-burden-of-venous-thromboembolism-in-cancer-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/2016\/04\/18\/economic-burden-of-venous-thromboembolism-in-cancer-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic burden of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/uit.no\/om\/enhet\/ansatte\/person?p_document_id=384859&amp;p_dimension_id=88116\" target=\"_blank\">Ina I. H\u00f8iland<\/a>, PhD student at TREC<a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/2016\/04\/18\/economic-burden-of-venous-thromboembolism-in-cancer-patients\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-758\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-758 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/204\/2016\/04\/COLOURBOX1198470-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication in cancer patients, and cancer patients are at increased risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism. Despite the well-established association between cancer and venous thromboembolism, there are few studies about the economic burden of venous thromboembolism in cancer patients. To asses, this a group at the Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA recently conducted a population-based cohort study to estimate the medical costs associated with cancer associated VTE.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The study included 374 cancer patients with VTE and 374 cancer patients without VTE. These two groups were used to compare the medical costs over a 5-year period in cancer patients with and without VTE.<\/p>\n<p>The cancer patients with VTE had almost 2-fold higher medical costs than the cancer patients without VTE. The cost differences were greatest the first 3 months after the VTE, and remained significantly higher during the remaining 5-year period. The authors conclude that venous thromboembolism contributes a substantial economic burden to patients with active cancer. Their findings will provide useful information for modelling and assessing the cost-effectiveness of different preventive actions against cancer-related VTE in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:<\/p>\n<p>Cohoon KP, Ransom JE, Leibson CL, Ashrani AA, Petterson TM, Long KH,\u00a0Bailey KR, Heit JA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/?term=Direct+Medical+Costs+Attributable+to+Cancer-Associated+Venous+Thromboembolism%3A+A+Population-based+Longitudinal+Study\" target=\"_blank\">Direct Medical Costs Attributable to Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism: A Population-based Longitudinal Study<\/a>, <em>The American Journal of Medicine <\/em>(2016), doi: 10.1016\/j.amjmed.2016.02.030.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-756'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(756);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>1 person likes this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(756);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(756);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fsite.uit.no%2Ftrec%2F2016%2F04%2F18%2Feconomic-burden-of-venous-thromboembolism-in-cancer-patients%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ina I. H\u00f8iland, PhD student at TREC Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication in cancer patients, and cancer patients are at increased risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism. Despite the well-established association between cancer and venous thromboembolism, there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/2016\/04\/18\/economic-burden-of-venous-thromboembolism-in-cancer-patients\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[161,165,163,162,164,79,86],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-cancer","tag-cancer-associated-vte","tag-department-of-health-sciences-research","tag-economic-burden","tag-mayo-clinic","tag-venous-thromboembolism","tag-vte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uit.no\/trec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}