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Identification of outcome domains in immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced inflammatory arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica: A scoping review by the OMERACT irAE working group

Posted April 30, 2024

Introduction: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), increasingly used cancer therapeutics, can cause off-target inflammatory effects called immune-related adverse events (irAEs), including ICI-induced inflammatory arthritis (ICI-induced IA)… Read More

The Utility of Laboratory Investigations for the Assessment and Management of Rheumatic Immune Related Adverse Events

Posted April 30, 2024

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have greatly improved survival of several cancers with historically very poor prognosis. ICIs act by stimulating the patient's own immune system… Read More

De novo Connective Tissue Disorders as Immune-related Adverse Events

Posted April 30, 2024

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer treatment through blocking immunoregulatory pathways, resulting in augmented antitumor responses. However, ICIs can cause inflammatory autoimmune toxicities, known… Read More

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor associated Remitting Seronegative Symmetrical Synovitis with Pitting Edema (ICI-RS3PE): Description of a New Entity by CanRIO

Posted February 18, 2024

Objective: Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (RS3PE) is characterized by symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema and negative rheumatoid factor (RF). It has been… Read More

EULAR points to consider for the diagnosis and management of rheumatic immune-related adverse events due to cancer immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors

Posted February 23, 2021
Ann Rheum Dis 2020 Background: Rheumatic and musculoskeletal immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are observed in about 10% of patients with cancer receiving checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs). Given… Read More

Preexisting autoimmune disease and immune-related adverse events associated with anti-PD-1 cancer immunotherapy: a national case series from the Canadian Research Group of Rheumatology in Immuno-Oncology

Posted January 21, 2021

Cancer Immunol Immunother 2021
Limited data are available on the safety and efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in patients with preexisting autoimmune diseases… Read More

Adverse Events Associated with Immune Checkpoint Blockade

Posted January 18, 2021

N Engl J Med 2018
A case of PR3-ANCA GPA developing after checkpoint blockade is described. Read More

Real-world analyses of therapy discontinuation of checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic melanoma patients

Posted September 3, 2020

Sci Rep 2020
The ‘real-world’ patient population of metastatic melanoma is not fully represented in clinical trials investigating checkpoint inhibitors. We described therapy discontinuation… Read More

Rheumatic immune-related adverse events associated with cancer immunotherapy: A nationwide multi-center cohort

Posted August 19, 2020

Autoimmun Rev 2020
Objective: Although immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized cancer therapy, their use is associated with immune toxicities referred to as immune-related… Read More

Moving towards personalized treatments of immune-related adverse events

Posted August 17, 2020

Nat Rev Clin Oncol 2020
The enhancement of immune responses upon treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors can have the desired outcome of reinvigorating antitumour… Read More