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No link seen between methotrexate, interstitial lung disease in RA
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- Susan London
Patients with RA had roughly three to five times the risk of interstitial lung disease, compared with the general population, but use of this...
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Some biologics may be better than others for averting anterior uveitis
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- Susan London
A Swedish cohort study of more than 3,500 patients with ankylosing spondylitis or undifferentiated spondyloarthritis finds that, relative to other...
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Avacopan notches a win in ANCA-associated vasculitis
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- Susan London
The pivotal ADVOCATE trial showed that, relative to prednisone, the oral C5a receptor antagonist yielded a superior rate of sustained remission at...
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Blood test might detect multiple cancer types, study suggests
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- Susan London
The test, which uses methylation patterns in plasma cell-free DNA, had specificity and sensitivity approaching those needed for population-based...
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Cardiovascular disease is implicated in link between air pollution and dementia
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- Susan London
The Swedish SNAC-K study of nearly 3,000 older adults suggests that heart failure and ischemic heart disease enhance the deleterious effect of air...
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CLEOPATRA: Pertuzumab has long-term benefit in HER2+ breast cancer
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- Susan London
Adding pertuzumab to trastuzumab and docetaxel as first-line therapy for metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer reduced the risk of death by 31%...
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Live zoster vaccine confers limited protection during tofacitinib therapy
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- Susan London
Five percent of patients with rheumatoid arthritis given the live attenuated zoster vaccine before starting tofacitinib still developed shingles...
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Teledermoscopy using smartphones fails to boost skin cancer detection
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- Susan London
Mobile teledermoscopy did not increase the sensitivity of skin cancer detection, compared with naked-eye skin...
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Vision symptoms are common and often life-altering for patients with Parkinson’s disease
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- Susan London
Two-thirds of patients reported ophthalmologic problems that were severe enough to interfere with activities such as walking, reading, working on...
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Adjuvant chemo emerges as new standard in upper tract urothelial cancer
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- Susan London
The POUT trial suggests platinum-based chemotherapy is safe and effective in this rare disease that lacks international consensus on postsurgical...
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Adjunctive surgery may be unnecessary in many testicular cancer patients
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- Susan London
SAN FRANCISCO – Adjunctive resection of organs, blood vessels, or bone was deemed unnecessary in almost 40% of testicular cancer patients analyzed...
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Gene therapy appears effective in bladder cancer patients with few options
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- Susan London
SAN FRANCISCO – Intravesical gene therapy produced durable responses in patients with non–muscle invasive bladder cancer that did not respond to...
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Apalutamide benefit sustained in mCSPC regardless of next therapy
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- Susan London
SAN FRANCISCO – The risk of second progression-free survival events was about one-third lower for patients who initially received apalutamide...
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Seminoma: Risk-adapted strategy could mean less toxic chemo
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- Susan London
SAN FRANCISCO – Findings of the SEMITEP trial suggest that early FDG-PET identifies the two-thirds of men with highly chemosensitive low-volume...
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SBRT may boost efficacy of immunotherapy in renal cell carcinoma
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- Susan London
SAN FRANCISCO – More than half of patients in the RADVAX RCC trial had a response in nonirradiated lesions, but the prespecified threshold for...