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No Need to Rule Out Cancers in Newly Diagnosed Antibody-Associated Vasculitis Patients
No Need to Rule Out Cancers in Newly Diagnosed Antibody-Associated Vasculitis Patients
B Jancin
20080622
2008 Jul 22
Elsevier Global Medical News
No Need to Rule Out Cancers in Newly Diagnosed Antibody-Associated Vasculitis Patients
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Jul 22, B Jancin
PARIS (EGMN) - Patients with newly diagnosed antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis do not have an increased rate of underlying malignancies, according to the findings of a large Danish case-control study."The overall message of our study is that as a clinician you don't have to screen your patients with newly diagnosed [antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis] for any underlying cancer on a routine basis," Dr. Mikkel Faurschou said at the annual congress...