Standard testing plus PET/CT scanning vs standard testing alone
Frequency of an underlying cancer diagnosis8 · people with unprovoked VTE
Standard testing plus PET/CT scanning showed no clear difference in frequency of an underlying cancer diagnosis8 compared with standard testing alone (moderate certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- Effect of testing for cancer on cancer‐ or venous thromboembolism (VTE)‐related mortality and morbidity in people with… 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyOR 1.71 [0.91, 3.2]2 studies · 1248 participantsModerate