Incidence of cancer in rheumatoid arthritis and other disorders after immunosuppressive treatment.

A prospective study in the United Kingdom of 1,634 patients without transplants treated with immunosuppressive drugs (68 percent with azathioprine, 28 percent with cyclophosphamide) found an excess of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and squamous cell skin cancer, suggesting that the excesses (although l...

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Main Author: Kinlen, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 1985