The influence of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and corticosteroids on the association between rheumatoid arthritis and skin cancer: a nationwide retrospective case-control study in Taiwan.

Abstract

The patients with RA had significantly increased associations with NMSC, especially those receiving cyclosporine, etanercept, and d-penicillamine; higher cumulative doses of corticosteroids and methotrexate; or more kinds of DMARDs in combination or in sequence. The aforementioned associations were much stronger in the elderly.