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   Systemic scleroderma

   Causes ... Bleomycin (a chemotherapeutic agent) and possibly taxane chemotherapy may cause scleroderma, and occupational exposure to solvents has been linked with an increased risk of systemic sclerosis.
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   Hemolytic-uremic syndrome

   ... typical Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) seen with other causes of septicemia... occasionally... advanced cancer, coagulation factors... consumed in HUS ... TTP)... products... generally normal... low platelet count (thrombocytopenia). ... Adult HUS has similar symptoms and pathology but is an uncommon outcome of the following: HIV; antiphospholipid syndrome (associated with Lupus erythematosus and generalized hypercoagulability); post partum renal failure; malignant hypertension; scleroderma; and certain drugs including some chemotherapy drugs and other...
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   Methotrexate

   In cancer chemotherapy ... It has come into use as a treatment for some autoimmune diseases, including Myasthenia Gravis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, inclusion body myositis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, pustular psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener's granulomatosis, and scleroderma (see disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs).
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   Actinic keratosis

   5-fluorouracil (a chemotherapy agent): a cream that contains this medication causes AKs to become red and inflamed before they fall off ... | Indurated | scleroderma/morphea · granuloma annulare · lichen sclerosis et atrophicus · necrobiosis lipoidica | | |
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   Folic acid

   Folic acid supplements have little established role in cancer chemotherapy. ... Low dose methotrexate is used to treat a wide variety of non-cancerous diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma, psoriasis, asthma, sarcoidosis, primary biliary cirrhosis, polymyositis, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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   Breast cancer treatment

   The patient has had scleroderma or another disease of the connective tissue, which can complicate radiotherapy. ... In up to 10% of patients, there will be disease recurrences, but treating every patient with chemotherapy is overkill.
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   Thymoma

   Other... pericarditis, Addison's disease, agranulocytosis,... areata,... colitis, Cushing's disease,... anemia,... encephalopathy, myocarditis,... syndrome, panhypopituitarism,... anemia, polymyositis,... arthritis, sarcoidosis, scleroderma,... radiculopathy, stiff person syndrome,... erythematosus... thyroiditis. ... ... and large, preoperative (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy may be used to lessen the tumor burden before surgery is attempted.
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   Myocarditis

   Drugs (ethanol, anthracyclines and some other forms of chemotherapy, and antipsychotics, e.g. clozapine) ... Autoantigens (scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosis, sarcoidosis, systemic vasculitis such as Churg-Strauss syndrome, Wegener's granulomatosis)
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   Telangiectasia

   Chemotherapy ... CREST syndrome (a variant of scleroderma)
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    Dermatomyositis

    Causes ... Some cases of dermatomyositis actually "overlap" (are combined with) another autoimmune disease such as lupus, scleroderma, or vasculitis.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Systemic scleroderma,
• Hemolytic-uremic syndrome,
• Methotrexate,
• Actinic keratosis,
• Folic acid,
• Breast cancer treatment,
• Thymoma,
• Myocarditis,
• Telangiectasia,
• Dermatomyositis

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