On the contrary, thromboprophylaxis in oncological surgery is generally limited to the period of hospitalisation, despite the fact that activation of coagulation is greater and more prolonged in patients undergoing surgery for neoplastic processes than in those patients not affected by cancer. The only two studies carried out to evaluate the efficacy of the prolongation of thromboprophylaxis for 4 weeks in this type of surgery seem to indicate that the VTE incidence could be reduced even further that with one-week prophylaxis, though these do not allow to establish a definitive conclusion.