Atrial Fibrillation in Active Cancer Patients

Inclusion Criteria:

• adult patients

• outpatients or hospitalized patients

• with a confirmed cancer (other than basal-cell or squamous-cell carcinoma of theskin, primary brain tumor, known intracerebral metastases, or acute leukemia) and anactive cancer (defined as cancer that had been diagnosed within the past 6 months orrecurrent locally advanced or metastatic cancer, for which anticancer treatment wasbeing given at the time of enrollment or during 6 months before enrollment)

• at least 1 episode of atrial fibrillation (new onset AF occuring after cancerdiagnosis or history of paroxysmal of persistant AF prior to cancer diagnosis and anAF recurrence after cancer diagnosis)

• in sinus rhythm at the time of cancer diagnosis

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient with palliative cares or other conditions resulting in short term death (death expected in the month following atrial fibrillation occurrence)

• history of long-standing persistant or permanent AF prior to cancer diagnosis