Is it safe to treat checkpoint inhibitor-induced arthritis with methotrexate or biologics?

Topics: Gynecologic Cancers • Medical Oncology • Immunotherapy • Immune-related adverse events • Rheumatology • Inflammatory arthritis

Answer from: at Academic Institution

How the safety of methotrexate or biologics compares to long term steroid use to treated checkpoint-inhibitor inflammatory arthritis has not been determined. With that said, steroids can have deleterious effects on the tumor response in addition to all the other known side effects. Therefore, for pa...

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