Doctors are increasingly realising that many cancer patients do not die from the cancer itself but from clots that may have been preventable.
Shocking figures from the charity Lifeblood show that for every seven cancer patients who die in hospital, one will succumb not to the disease itself, but to pulmonary embolism, one of the main causes of death linked to blood clots.
Campaigners are now calling for better awareness among medics and patients.
‘If you have cancer, you’re seven times more likely to have a blood clot. For some cancers the risk is increased 28-fold,’ says Dr Simon Noble, clinical reader in palliative medicine at Cardiff University and Lifeblood’s authority on cancer-related blood clots.
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