Clinical Phenotypes, Treatment, and Outcomes of Rheumatic Immune–Related Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Rheumatologists‐Referred Multicenter German Registry Cohort
Didzis Gailis, Fabian T.H. Ullrich, Sophia Dombret, Marc Schmalzing, Rebecca Hasseli‐Fräbel, Torsten Witte, Thea Thiele, Uta Kiltz, Mara Oleszowsky, Marcel Müller, Karolina Gente, Christof Specker, Matthias B. Thaler, Alla Skapenko, Hendrik Schulze‐Koops · 2026
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Didzis Gailis and fourteen co-authors draw on a German registry to map joint troubles caused by cancer drugs, in a 2026 paper. The drugs free the immune system to attack tumors, but the freed system can turn on joints and muscles. Rheumatism experts across Germany logged each referred case in a shared registry. By the start of 2026 the registry held 60 patients, with a median age of 66 and slightly more men than women.
Skin cancer was the most common tumor behind the cases. The top pattern mimicked a classic joint disease, with sore, swollen joints in both hands. Next came a shoulder-and-hip ache pattern, then a spine-and-joint mix. The paper lays out how bad the cases were, what care they got, and how they ended. Such maps help doctors spot these side effects early and treat them without losing the cancer gains.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Didzis Gailis, Fabian T.H. Ullrich, Sophia Dombret, Marc Schmalzing, Rebecca Hasseli‐Fräbel, Torsten Witte, Thea Thiele, Uta Kiltz, Mara Oleszowsky, Marcel Müller, Karolina Gente, Christof Specker, Matthias B. Thaler, Alla Skapenko, Hendrik Schulze‐Koops |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |