Table 1.
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].