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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Hematol. 2012 Apr;5(2):201–209. doi: 10.1586/ehm.11.86

Table 1.

Expanded model for predicting chemotherapy-associated thrombosis.

Patient characteristics VTE risk score
Site of cancer
Very high risk (primary brain, stomach or pancreas) 2
High risk (lung, lymphoma, gynecologic, genitourinary excluding prostate or multiple myeloma) 1
Low risk (breast, colorectal or head and neck) 0
Other characteristics
Platelet count ≥350 × 109/l 1
Hemoglobin <100 g/l or use of red blood cell growth factors 1
Leukocyte count >11 × 109/l 1
BMI ≥35 kg/m2 1
sP-selectin ≥53.1 ng/ml 1
D-dimer ≥1.44 μg/ml 1

sP-selectin: Soluble P-selectin; VTE: Venous thromboembolism.

Reproduced with permission from [37].