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Malignancy risk with tofacitinib versus TNF inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the open-label, randomised controlled ORAL Surveillance trial
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    Malignancy risk with tofacitinib versus TNF inhibitors in rheumatoid arthritis: results from the open-label, randomized controlled ORAL surveillance trial: Comment on the Article by Curtis et al.
    • Yukitomo URATA, Rheumatologist Department of Rheumatology, Tsugaru General Hospital, United Municipalities of Tsugaru

    I read the paper by Curtis et al. with great interest [1]. A new analysis using this paper’s data has yielded important results that should be presented here.
    The authors state that (1) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) aged ≥50 years with ≥1 additional cardiovascular risk factor, the risk of adjudicated malignancies excluding non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), lung cancer and NMSC was higher with tofacitinib versus tumor necrosis factor inhibitor (TNFi); (2) lung cancer was the most frequently reported malignancy in tofacitinib-treated patients; and (3) history of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) or increasing risk scores were associated with higher malignancy incidence rates (IRs) across treatment.
    Atherosclerosis can be caused by various factors, such as smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension, hyperglycemia, diabetes, and genetic factors [2]. However, atherosclerosis can also develop due to infection [3]. These infections include Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), pneumonia, periodontal disease, and viruses such as cytomegalovirus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), herpes simplex virus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), human papilloma viruses (HPV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 [3, 4].
    Some infections that cause atherosclerosis are thought to contribute to cancer in humans. The fractions of different types of cancer, and of all cancers worldwide and in dif...

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