Apixaban for the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Cancer

Inclusion Criteria

• Consecutive patients with a newly diagnosed, objectively confirmed: symptomatic or unsuspected, proximal lower-limb DVT or symptomatic PE or unsuspected PE in a segmental or more proximal pulmonary artery;
• Any type of cancer (other than basal-cell or squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, primary brain tumor or intracerebral metastasis and acute leukemia);
• Signed and dated informed consent of the patient, available before the start of any specific trial procedure.

Exclusion Criteria

• age 180 mmHg or diastolic BP > 100 mmHg despite antihypertensive treatment);
• concomitant use of strong inhibitors or inducers of both cytochrome P-450 3A4 and P-Glycoprotein;

Standard criteria:

• bacterial endocarditis;
• hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients of study drug;
• patients participation in other pharmaco therapeutic program with an experimental therapy that is known to effect the coagulation system;
• childbearing potential without proper contraceptive measures, pregnancy, or breast feeding;
• any condition that as judged by the Investigator would place the subject at increased risk of harm if he/she participated in the study.