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RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 62, Issue 7, Pages 2539-2543Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keac614
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SSc; SSSCA1; autoantibody; autoimmunity; malignancy
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This study aims to define the clinical phenotype of SSc patients with antibodies against Sjogren's syndrome (SS)/scleroderma autoantigen 1 (SSSCA1), and examine the association between these antibodies and cancer in SSc patients. The study found that SSc patients with anti-SSSCA1 antibodies were more likely to have severe Raynaud's phenomenon and cardiac involvement. Among patients with cancer, there was a trend towards a longer cancer-SSc interval in anti-SSSCA1-positive patients. Patients with anti-SSSCA1 antibodies had an increased adjusted risk of cancer compared with anti-SSSCA1-negative patients.
Objective To define the clinical phenotype of SSc patients with antibodies against Sjogren's syndrome (SS)/scleroderma autoantigen 1 (SSSCA1), and to examine the association between these antibodies and cancer in SSc patients. Methods We conducted a case-control study using data from 209 patients with SSc and cancer, and 205 SSc patients without cancer. All were randomly selected from the Johns Hopkins Scleroderma Center Research Registry. Antibodies against SSSCA1 were assayed by immunoprecipitation of S-35-methionine-labelled protein generated by in vitro transcription and translation. We performed logistic regression analysis to examine the relationship between anti-SSSCA1 antibodies and cancer. Results Among the 414 study patients, 31 (7%) were anti-SSSCA1 antibody positive. Antibody-positive patients were more likely to have severe RP, a lower minimum ejection fraction, a trend towards more severe heart involvement and a lower baseline diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide percent predicted than anti-SSSCA1-negative patients. Patients with cancer were significantly more likely to be anti-SSSCA1 positive compared with those without cancer [22/209 (11%) vs 9/205 (4%), respectively; P = 0.018]. Among patients with cancer, there was a trend towards longer cancer-SSc interval in anti-SSSCA1-positive patients compared with anti-SSSCA1-negative patients. Patients with anti-SSSCA1 antibodies had an increased adjusted risk of cancer (odds ratio 2.46, 95% CI 1.06, 5.70) compared with anti-SSSCA1-negative patients. Conclusions These data suggest anti-SSSCA1 antibody status may be of utility as a cancer biomarker in SSc. Anti-SSSCA1-positive patients with SSc may be more likely to have severe Raynaud's and cardiac involvement.
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