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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 16.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Jun;66(6):1472–1481. doi: 10.1002/art.38385

Table 3.

Incidence Rates of Malignancy in PsA and RA per 100 Patient Years

PsA RA PsA vs. RA
Count Total
PY for
Event
IR (95% CI) Count Total PY
for
Event
IR (95% CI) IRR P value
All cancers* 40 7156.1 0.56 (0.40, 0.76) 307 54709.7 0.56 (0.50, 0.63) 1.00 (0.70, 1.36) 0.864
  NMSC 15 7099.0 0.21 (0.12, 0.35) 109 54136.8 0.20 (0.17, 0.24) 1.05 (0.61, 1.80) 0.854
  non-NMSC** 25 7121.9 0.35 (0.23, 0.52) 198 54387.2 0.36 (0.32, 0.42) 0.97 (0.61, 1.42) 0.725
Solid 20 7112.8 0.28 (0.17, 0.43) 168 54294.0 0.31 (0.26, 0.36) 0.90 (0.57, 1.45) 0.691
  Breast 7 3580.0 0.20 (0.08, 0.40) 55 41025.4 0.13 (0.10, 0.17) 1.54 (0.67, 3.23) 0.338
  Prostate 3 3477.4 0.09 (0.02, 0.25) 20 12747.5 0.16 (0.10, 0.24) 0.56 (0.16, 1.86) 0.338
  Colorectal 3 7073.9 0.04 (0.01, 0.12) 14 53847.2 0.03 (0.01, 0.04) 1.33 (0.47, 5.70) 0.438
  Melanoma 3 7068.8 0.04 (0.01, 0.12) 15 53850.4 0.03 (0.02, 0.05) 1.33 (0.44, 5.28) 0.502
Hematologic 5 7074.1 0.07 (0.02, 0.16) 30 53907.6 0.06 (0.04, 0.08) 1.17 (0.36, 2.89) 0.971
  Lymphoma 3 7069.7 0.04 (0.01, 0.12) 21 53874.8 0.04 (0.02, 0.06) 1.00 (0.17, 3.11) 0.668
  Multiple myeloma 1 7067.1 0.01 (0.00, 0.08) 1 53821.2 0.00 (0.00, 0.01) 7.78 (0.48, 122.23) 0.150
  Leukemia 1 7067.1 0.01 (0.00, 0.08) 8 53840.2 0.01 (0.01, 0.03) 1.00 (0.12, 7.64) 0.966
*

All cancers=NMSC + non-NMSC.

**

Non-NMSC=Solid + Hematologic