Analysis shows increased cancer risk in adults with idiopathic inflammatory myositis and prior malignancy, suggesting close monitoring is needed.
In our tertiary referral centre, approximately one quarter of adult IIM patients who had a cancer diagnosis in the three years before IIM onset went on to develop an additional malignancy, either a recurrence or a new primary.
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