Abstracts tagged "Cancer and psoriatic arthritis"

Abstract Number: 1848 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Risk of Cancer in Patients with Severe Psoriatic Arthritis Requiring Tumour-Necrosis Factor Alpha Inhibition
Karen M. Fagerli^1,2, Louise K. Mercer¹, Kath D. Watson¹, Jonathon Packham³, Deborah PM Symmons^4,5, Kimme L. Hyrich⁶ and . On behalf of the BSRBR⁷, ¹Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ²Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway, ³Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele, United Kingdom, ⁴NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁵Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁶Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, ⁷British Society for Rheumatology, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose Few studies have explored risk of cancer in psoriatic arthritis (PsA). There are concerns that the risk may be raised, not only by the…