In 2015, Johns Hopkins scientists proved that scleroderma is often a casualty of war: it is the unfortunate consequence of the body’s battle to fight off cancer. We have since learned much more about the complex, bidirectional relationship between cancer and autoimmunity. It is a tale told by antibodies: a paraneoplastic disease, in which naturally occurring anti-tumor immune responses lead to autoimmunity.
In this edition of LEAP Rounds, Dr. Ami Shah discusses target cancer screening at the interface of scleroderma and cancer.
