Anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment does not increase cancer Ri...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 10/28/2009 - 22:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) A recent study by Swedish researchers found that rheumatoid arthritis patients did not experience an elevated cancer risk in the first six years after starting anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy.

Details of the study appear in the November issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology published by Wiley-Blackwell.


 

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