Abstracts tagged "etanercept and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 477 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Impact of Etanercept On Incident Cancer in Taiwanese Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jiunn Horng Chen¹ and Wen-Miin Liang², ¹Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung City, Taiwan, ²Biostatistics Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Background/Purpose: The recent Taiwanese report has indicated an elevated risk of malignancy in RA patients1. Etanercept, one of the tumor necrotic factor inhibitors (TNF-I) to…
Abstract Number: 1287 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Rheumatoid Arthritis Comparison of Active Therapies in Methotrexate Suboptimal Responders: Validation of the Strategy of Conventional Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs Before Biologicals
James R. O'Dell¹, Ted R. Mikuls², Thomas Taylor³, Vandana Ahluwalia⁴, Mary Brophy⁵, Stuart Warren⁶, Robert Lew⁵, Ciaran Phibbs⁷, Aslam H. Anis⁸, Amy C. Cannella⁹, Gary A. Kunkel¹⁰, Alan R. Erickson², Edward Keystone¹¹ and the CSP551 RACAT Research Group¹², ¹Dept of Internal Medicine, Omaha VA and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ²Omaha VA Medical Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, ⁴William Osler Health Center, Brampton, ON, Canada, ⁵VA Boston Heathcare System, Boston, MA, ⁶VA CSP Clinical Research Pharmacy Coordinating Center, Albuquerque, NM, ⁷Health Economics Resource Center (152), Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Menlo Park, CA, ⁸Population and Public Health, Univ of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁹Divison of Rheumatology, Omaha VA and University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ¹⁰Div of Rheumatology, George Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, ¹¹University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, ¹²Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Double-blind placebo controlled randomized trials have demonstrated the efficacy of 15 different therapies in RA patients with active disease despite methotrexate (MTX). No blinded…