Table 1.

Effect of VTE on Mortality Risk Within 1 Year of Diagnosis in Patients with Different Cancer Types Stratified by Cancer Stage

	Hazard Ratio by Stage
	Local	Regional	Remote
Prostate	5.6*	4.7*	2.8†
Breast	6.6*	2.4†	1.8‡
Lung	3.1*	2.9*	2.5*
Colorectal	3.2*	2.2*	2.0*
Melanoma	14.4*	NA	2.8†
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma	3.2*	2.0†	2.3*
Uterus	7.0*	9.1*	1.7‡
Bladder	3.2*	3.3*	3.3*
Pancreas	2.3‡	3.8*	2.3*
Stomach	2.4‡	1.5‡	1.8*
Ovary	11.3†	4.8‡	2.3*
Kidney	3.2‡	1.4	1.3

^*P <.001;

^†P <.01;

^‡P <.05.

Reproduced with permission from Archives of Internal Medicine, February 27, 2006, Volume 166, Page 463. Copyright © 2006 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.¹²