Posted on 04/13/2022 9:36:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study suggests that people with cancer and non-O blood types, such as types A, B, and AB, face an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE), or blood clots in the veins, three months after their initial diagnosis. Scientists have long strived to understand the risk factors for VTE, the leading cause of preventable hospital deaths in the United States. Existing assessments use factors like tumor or cancer type to detect those at high risk of VTE. Yet, many patients without these diagnoses still develop life-threatening blood clots but go unidentified.
VTE includes deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). While these blood clots can affect anyone, existing research suggests that those with non-O blood types are more likely to develop VTE. Cancer and cancer therapies also increase one's chances of developing blood clots, and while people with severe forms of cancer are more likely to develop VTE, less research exists on the risk among patients with cancers less associated with thrombosis.
Explained study author Cornelia Englisch, an MD-Ph.D. student: "By solely assessing tumor type, we miss up to 50% of people who develop VTE."
Their results indicated that patients with non-O blood types were more likely to develop VTE three months after their diagnosis or reoccurrence of cancer. This association did not appear at the time of diagnosis because cancer therapies increase patients' likelihood of developing blood clots, making blood type a less significant predictor of VTE during early stages of treatment. Those with tumors outside of the high-risk disease category with non-O blood type were more likely to develop blood clots independent of time, showing that exclusively depending on tumor type to detect VTE risk may cause many patients to fall through the cracks.
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Consider foods or supplements that help keep your blood thin. Omega-3 fats and some enzymes are great options, but antioxidants might interfere with some therapies. Regardless, talk with your doctor about anti-coagulation steps you would want to take, and give this writeup to him or her.
Always make sure you have a large number of spikey proteins too
My blood is O- and its RH factor is also -.
It’s supposed to be a super blood.
I’m like a gold mine.
Yep, those adrenochrome junkies will target you first.
Me too. Maybe that's what saved me when I had cancer in 1996.
Even after reading the entire article there is something not sensical here.
How can there be thrombosis risk 3 months after diagnosis... diagnosis isn’t some magical date when you got the cancer.
Why is it 3 months after DIAGNOSIS?
A better question might be, what medications or treatments is everyone given immediately after DIAGNOSIS that may be causing this 3 months or more later?
Because a person might have had cancer for a week or for YEARS before DIAGNOSIS.
It even mentions that cancer treatments increase risk of blood clots but the entire meat of it just glossed over WHY they actually think certain blood types are vulnerable separate from the treatment risks.
Type O here, and I developed a blood clot after cancer DX (a decade ago). Maybe I’m an outlier?
I can answer that question based on my experience: The clot tends to form around the port or PICC line used for chemo infusions. And, yes, it happened to me about 3 months after diagnosis.
I have worked in blood bank a long time.. noticed many GI bleeds are O type. It is the most common, so partially statistical. I had a hemorrhage myself and I am type O.
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