• Dominique Farge, Corinne Frere, Jean M Connors, Alok A Khorana, Ajay Kakkar, Cihan Ay, Andres Muñoz, Benjamin Brenner, Pedro H Prata, Dialina Brilhante, Darko Antic, Patricia Casais, María Cecilia Guillermo Esposito, Takayuki Ikezoe, Syed A Abutalib, Luis A Meillon-García, Henri Bounameaux, Ingrid Pabinger, James Douketis, and International Initiative on Thrombosis and Cancer (ITAC) advisory panel.
• Unité de Médecine Interne (UF04): CRMR MATHEC, Maladies Auto-immunes et Thérapie Cellulaire, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Nord-Université de Paris, Paris, France; Faculté de Médecine, Institut de Recherche St-Louis, EA-3518, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Department of Medicine, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Electronic address: itaccme@gmail.com.
• Lancet Oncol. 2022 Jul 1; 23 (7): e334e347e334-e347.

AbstractThe International Initiative on Thrombosis and Cancer is an independent academic working group of experts aimed at establishing global consensus for the treatment and prophylaxis of cancer-associated thrombosis. The 2013, 2016, and 2019 International Initiative on Thrombosis and Cancer clinical practice guidelines have been made available through a free, web-based mobile phone application. The 2022 clinical practice guidelines, which are based on a literature review up to Jan 1, 2022, include guidance for patients with cancer and with COVID-19. Key recommendations (grade 1A or 1B) include: (1) low-molecular-weight heparins (LMWHs) for the initial (first 10 days) treatment and maintenance treatment of cancer-associated thrombosis; (2) direct oral anticoagulants for the initial treatment and maintenance treatment of cancer-associated thrombosis in patients who are not at high risk of gastrointestinal or genitourinary bleeding, in the absence of strong drug-drug interactions or of gastrointestinal absorption impairment; (3) LMWHs or direct oral anticoagulants for a minimum of 6 months to treat cancer-associated thrombosis; (4) extended prophylaxis (4 weeks) with LMWHs to prevent postoperative venous thromboembolism after major abdominopelvic surgery in patients not at high risk of bleeding; and (5) primary prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism with LMWHs or direct oral anticoagulants (rivaroxaban or apixaban) in ambulatory patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer who are treated with anticancer therapy and have a low risk of bleeding.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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