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How do you counsel patients about the potential malignancy risk associated with traditional DMARDs?

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Rheumatology · Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

I discuss with them the slight increase of non-melanoma skin cancer in studies of methotrexate. Otherwise, there is not convincing data of associations between csDMARDs and cancer development.

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