Table 3.
First VTE event (%) during hospitalisation stratified by cancer site and age-group
| Age (years) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer site | <60 | 60–80 | >80 | ||||||
| During hospitalisation | No. of people | No. with VTE | % | No. of people | No. with VTE | % | No. of people | No. with VTE | % |
| Breast | 231,286 | 1166 | 0.50 | 220,311 | 2112 | 0.96 | 73,456 | 1565 | 2.13 |
| Lung | 60,594 | 1820 | 3.00 | 249,044 | 5775 | 2.32 | 86,033 | 2213 | 2.57 |
| Bowel | 76,305 | 984 | 1.29 | 247,306 | 4068 | 1.64 | 108,697 | 2317 | 2.13 |
| Prostate | 32,460 | 255 | 0.79 | 239,913 | 3516 | 1.47 | 111,705 | 2105 | 1.88 |
| Ovarian | 25,834 | 740 | 2.86 | 34,245 | 1527 | 4.46 | 10,534 | 567 | 5.38 |
| Pancreatic | 13,278 | 700 | 5.27 | 44,386 | 2259 | 5.09 | 20,915 | 887 | 4.24 |
| Liver | 11,020 | 514 | 4.66 | 28,717 | 1101 | 3.83 | 12,505 | 390 | 3.12 |
| All cancers | 915,676 | 12,787 | 1.40 | 1,879,373 | 36,692 | 1.95 | 763,631 | 17,475 | 2.29 |