Do inflammatory bowel disease therapies cause cancer?

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1306-1321

  Mason, Mysha ^a   Siegel, Corey A ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti tumor necrosis factor; Inflammatory bowel disease; Malignancy; Methotrexate; Thiopurine

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; ETANERCEPT; INFLIXIMAB; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; NATALIZUMAB; PREDNISONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TACROLIMUS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR INHIBITOR;

AGE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERITIS; GENDER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MEDLINE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; MYELOMA; NEOPLASM; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; SOLID TUMOR; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY; UTERUS CANCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84879195556     PISSN: 10780998     EISSN: 15364844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MIB.0b013e3182807618     Document Type: Review

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