Monday, October 27, 2008
Good news, bad news
From ACR today:
The good news is that a new study found that TNF-antagonists do not increase the risk of cancer for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The Spanish study looked at a database that included 14,001 person years and found very similar incidences of cancer in TNF-taking and control patients.
The bad news is that, even though rheumatologic patients are often at a higher risk of developing zoster infections, immunosuppressive therapies can prevent them from getting the vaccine. According to CDC recommendations, the zoster vaccine should be avoided in patients who are on high-dose corticosteroids or TNF-alpha-blockers. It can be given once patients have been off the drugs for at least a month, said this morning's presenter.
Labels: rheumatology
posted by Stacey Butterfield at
12:34 PM
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2 Comments:
Nice post. I would like to link the original article on my website, InteractMD.com, but the link is broken...I tried to Google the item also, but no luck. Can you update the link?
Thanks, and keep the great content coming!
I looked into the problem and apparently all of the links to the abstracts are not working. Sorry about that! I've changed them to link to press releases (which include the abstracts) instead.
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