Abstracts tagged "cancer and registry"

Abstract Number: 1070 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Mortality Risk in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Develop Non–Hodgkin′s Lymphoma
Pratibha Nayak¹, Zaki Abou Zahr², Ruili Luo³, Linda Elting³ and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor⁴, ¹General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ³The Department of Health Services Research, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁴The Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have greater risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) than the general population. A previous two-center study suggested that the rates…