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Article: Immunosuppressive Treatment Important for RA Sufferers.
- Article from:
- Immunotherapy Weekly
- Article date:
- August 24, 1998
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Patients with rheumatoid arthritis have been shown to have an increased risk of developing cancers, but the reasons for this are unclear.
Dr. Eva Baecklund and her colleagues from the University Hospital in Uppsala in Sweden studied 11,683 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, of whom 42 developed a lymphoma (a cancer in which cells of lymphoid tissue, found mainly in the lymph nodes and spleen, multiply unchecked).
They found that there seems to be a strong association between the effect that rheumatoid arthritis has on the immune system of sufferers and the increased risk of lymphoma. They also discovered that there was no association between any specific drug ...