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Would you avoid use of JAK inhibitors in patients with dermatomyositis with autoantibody subtypes with increased risk of malignancy (TIF1y, NXP2)?

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Rheumatology · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)

This is a difficult question to answer with certainty. Most of the direct data on malignancy risk with JAK inhibitors come from rheumatoid arthritis studies, and primarily involve tofacitinib. It is therefore possible that the risk is not the same across all JAK inhibitors, especially since they dif...

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