Sticky Issues: What APs Need to Know About Anticoagulants and Patients With Cancer

J Adv Pract Oncol. 2021 Apr;12(3):262-265. doi: 10.6004/jadpro.2021.12.3.8. Epub 2021 Apr 1.

Abstract

During the JADPRO Live Virtual 2020 conference, Val R. Adams, PharmD, FCCP, FHOPA, BCOP, discussed how to determine which patients with cancer should be treated with direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), the similarities and differences between the DOACs, and recent data on the prevention and treatment of cancer-associated venous thromboembolism.