When that happens, you may be at risk for deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, when a blood clot forms in a vein, usually deep inside your leg. Your veins don't just rely on your heartbeat to force blood ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously ...

Tumors can drive thrombosis by releasing chemokines, secreted proteins that can circulate to the lung. This image of a lung sample shows how immune cells called macrophages release small vesicles ...