Extensive tests vs tests at the physician's discretion
Frequency of an underlying cancer diagnosis8 · people with unprovoked VTE
Extensive tests showed no clear difference in frequency of underlying cancer diagnosis10 compared with tests at the physician's discretion (low 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 1.32 [0.59, 2.93]2 studies · 396 participantsLow