Association of anticoagulant-related bleeding events with cancer detection in atrial fibrillation: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: A bleeding episode may herald cancer in the general population. Oral anticoagulants (OACs), the mainstay treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF), are known to increase the risk of bleeding, and may thus promote an earlier diagnosis of cancer. Data regarding the association of bleeding epi...

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Main Authors: Anastasios Papanastasiou, Antonios Morsi-Yeroyannis, Efstratios Karagiannidis, Anastasios Kartas, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Haralambos Karvounis, George Giannakoulas
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Language:EN
Published: Elsevier 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/63dee5821e9040cb916cf0263c0bd3e0
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