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Medical Oncology • Internal Medicine • Rheumatology • Hematology • Myositis • General Rheumatology • Dermatomyositis • Malignancy
What is your approach to screening for malignancy in dermatomyositis patients who do not have a high risk antibody profile and whose disease responds well to treatment?
Do you pursue screening beyond age-appropriate malignancy screening, especially in younger patients? For how long do you continue to monitor beyond the initial screen?
Answer from: at Community Practice
This is a great question and one that is very relevant to our clinical practice. Different myositis specific and associated antibodies seem to carry different risks in their associations with cancer. My colleague, Dr. Alexander Oldroyd, has written our current guidelines on cancer screening for pati...
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