A meta-analysis of the incidence of malignancy in adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Allison L Smitten¹ , Teresa A Simon² , Marc C Hochberg³ and Samy Suissa⁴

¹Duke University School of Medicine, Duke South, Durham, NC, 27710 USA

²Global Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, 311 Pennington-Rocky Hill Road; Hopewell, NJ, 08534 USA

³Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 10 S. Pine St., MSTF 8-34; Baltimore, MD, 21201 USA

⁴Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital; 687 Pine Ave West, R4.29; Montreal, QC, H3A 1A1 Canada