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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on February 23, 2008
Rheumatology 2008 47(4):548-549; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/ken026
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Risk of cancer in Turkish patients after treatment with TNF antagonists

S. Pay for The Society for Research and Education in Rheumatology of Turkey

GATA, Romatoloji BD, 06118 Etlik, Ankara, Turkey

Correspondence to: S. PAY, GATA Romatoloji BD, 06118 Etlik, Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: salihp@yahoo.com

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SIR, There is conflicting evidence whether anti-TNF therapy offers an increased cancer risk in rheumatological disorders. In this study, we aimed to collect pilot data on a possible association between anti-TNF agent use and development of neoplasms among Turkish patients with various rheumatological conditions.

We conducted a nationwide survey pooling reported cases from 26 different rheumatology centers in Turkey. A total of 2199 patients (1247 females, 952 males, mean age: 41.8 ± 13.9 yrs) were reported. Among those patients, 943 had AS (1027.16 patient-years) (mean age: 37.3 ± 10.9 yrs), 931 RA (1145.14 patient-years) (mean age: 49.1 ± 12.7 yrs), 132 PsA (mean age: 43.6 ± 12.5 yrs), 127 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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