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Would you stop azathioprine in a patient with ANCA vasculitis who has been in long term remission on azathioprine, but has a new diagnosis of lung cancer requiring initiation of immunotherapy?

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How do you manage steroid-refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor induced pneumonitis?

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How do you prescribe a steroid taper for radiation and checkpoint inhibitor related pneumonitis?

I've seen a handful of fatal radiation pneumonitis associated with rapid steroid tapers by the non-treating physicians. How do you recommend prescribi...

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How do you approach the management of SSc-ILD in a patient on immune checkpoint therapy?

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Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2017-11-21

Managing toxicities associated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: consensus recommendations from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Toxicity Management Working Group.

J Immunother Cancer, 2021 Feb

Success and failure of additional immune modulators in steroid-refractory/resistant pneumonitis related to immune checkpoint blockade.

J Natl Compr Canc Netw,

NCCN Guidelines Insights: Management of Immunotherapy-Related Toxicities, Version 1.2020.

Ann Oncol,

Management of toxicities from immunotherapy: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

J Immunother Cancer,

Steroid-refractory PD-(L)1 pneumonitis: incidence, clinical features, treatment, and outcomes.

J Immunother Cancer,

Real-world insights on preferred treatments for steroid-refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced pneumonitis.

J Clin Oncol, 2021 Dec 20

Management of Immune-Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: ASCO Guideline Update.

J Natl Compr Canc Netw,

Management of Immunotherapy-Related Toxicities, Version 1.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2015-05

Risk of lymphoma in patients with inflammatory bowel disease treated with azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine: a meta-analysis.

J Immunother Cancer, 2021 Jul

Timing of steroid initiation and response rates to immune checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic cancer.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2016 Jul 07

Azathioprine and Risk of Skin Cancer in Organ Transplant Recipients: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2019 Oct 21

Safety and Efficacy of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Patients With Cancer and Preexisting Autoimmune Disease: A Nationwide, Multicenter Cohort Study.

European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990), 2023 Dec 28

Effects of an immunosuppressive therapy on the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibition in metastatic melanoma - An analysis of the prospective skin cancer registry ADOREG.

Arthritis and rheumatism, 2006 Mar

Association of chronic inflammation, not its treatment, with increased lymphoma risk in rheumatoid arthritis.

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