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Patients with cancer are known to have increased rates of pulmonary embolism (PE) from their prothrombotic state, and computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiography has long served as the standard diagnostic test when PE is suspected. Professional guidelines and consensus documents have cautioned against applying clinical decision rules and D-dimer to exclude PE in patients with cancer, and the usual practice is to proceed directly to CT pulmonary angiography in this population. This practice c...