Symptomatic venous thromboembolism associated with peripherally inserted central catheters predicts a worse survival in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: results of a large cohort, propensity score–matched analysis

Autor: Yu-Jing Liang, Lin-Quan Tang, Xue-Song Sun, Yu-Ying Fan, Jin-Jie Yan, Yu-Yun Du, Shan-Shan Guo, Li-Ting Liu, Hao-Jun Xie, Sai-Lan Liu, Qing-Nan Tang, Xiao-Yun Li, Hai-Qiang Mai, Qiu-Yan Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: BMC Cancer, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2407
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-018-5213-9
Popis: Abstract Background Despite increasing use, symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) associated with peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) is a common complication in nonmetastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. Methods A total of 3012 nonmetastatic NPC patients were enrolled in this retrospective study, and we applied Cox regression and log-rank tests to assess the association between PICC-VTE and survival using the propensity score method (PSM) to adjust for gender, age, radiotherapy technique, tumor stage, node stage, UICC clinical stage and pre-treatment EBV DNA. Results 217 patients developed PICC-VTE, with an incidence of 7.20%. PSM identified 213 patients in the cohort with VTE and 852 in that without. Patients who developed PICC-VTE had a shorter 5-year PFS (77.5% vs 87.6%, p
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