Abstracts tagged "Cancer"

Abstract Number: 818 • 2014 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis and Risk of Mortality Among Women Followed Prospectively from 1976 to 2010 in the Nurses’ Health Study
Jeffrey A. Sparks¹, Shun-Chiao Chang^1,2, Katherine P. Liao¹, Bing Lu¹, Daniel H. Solomon¹, Karen H. Costenbader¹ and Elizabeth W. Karlson¹, ¹Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose RA has been associated with increased mortality compared to general population estimates. Previous studies were limited due to the inability to directly compare RA…
Abstract Number: 2475 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Cancer in Pediatric-Onset Systemic Lupus: What Is the Role of Disease Duration and Other Factors on Risk?
Sasha Bernatsky¹, Ann E. Clarke¹, Jeremy Labrecque², Emily von Scheven³, Laura E. Schanberg⁴, Earl D. Silverman⁵, Hermine Brunner⁶, Kathleen A. Haines⁷, Randy Q. Cron⁸, Kathleen M. O'Neil⁹, Kiem Oen¹⁰, Alan M. Rosenberg¹¹, Ciaran M. Duffy¹², Jennifer LF Lee¹³, Mruganka Kale¹³, Elizabeth M. Turnbull¹⁴ and Rosalind Ramsey-Goldman¹⁵, ¹Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²Clinical Epidemiology, Research Institute of the McGill Univ. Health Ctre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ⁵PRSCG, Cincinnati, OH, ⁶Pediatric Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ⁷Department of Pediatrics, Joseph M Sanzari Children’s Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, ⁸Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁹Division of Pediatric Rheum, Okla Univ Health Science Ctr, Oklahoma City, OK, ¹⁰Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, ¹¹Department of Pediatrics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, ¹²Rheumatology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, ¹³Clinical Epidemiology Rheum, RI McGill Univ Health Ctr, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁴Research Institute of the McGill Univ. Health Ctre, Montreal, QC, Canada, ¹⁵Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Compared to adults with SLE, relatively little is known about cancer risk in pediatric-onset SLE. We assessed cancer incidence in a multi-centre pediatric-onset SLE…