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. 2017 Aug 28;4:142. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2017.00142

Table 2.

Patients who can be considered for a switch to direct oral anticoagulants.

Probably Probably not
  • Stable metastatic cancer on oral or maintenance intravenous treatment

  • Metastatic cancer stable post immunotherapy treatment

  • Metastatic malignancy with expected long survival (ER + breast cancer on oral agent, low-grade lymphoma)

  • Metastatic cancer on immunotherapy treatment

  • Metastatic cancer progressing on treatment

  • Metastatic malignancy with expected short survival (pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, and refractory high-grade lymphoma)