Abstracts tagged "cancer and patient preferences"

Abstract Number: 2349 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
“I Was Prepared for the Other Side Effects; I Wasn’t Prepared for This One.”: A Qualitative Study of the Patients’ Experience of Inflammatory Arthritis Due to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Cancer
Laura C. Cappelli¹, Suzanne Grieb², Ana-Maria Orbai³, Ami A. Shah¹ and Clifton O. Bingham III⁴, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Center for Child and Community Health Research, Baltimore, MD, ³Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Background/Purpose: Patients treated for cancer with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) can develop a variety of adverse events. Inflammatory arthritis (IA) is an increasingly recognized event…