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Tocilizumab Impresses in Polyarticular Juvenile Arthritis
Medscape
MADRID, Spain — Children with polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with tocilizumab (Actemra, Genentech) achieved high response rates with sustained improvement in the phase 3 CHERISH trial.
The results prompted the US Food and Drug Administration toapprove tocilizumab for this indication. The drug is already approved for systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis and for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis.
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Tocilizumab (INN, or atlizumab, developed by Hoffmann–La Roche and Chugai and sold under the trade names Actemra and RoActemra) is an immunosuppressive drug, mainly for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, a severe form of RA in children. It is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R). Interleukin 6 (IL-6) is a cytokine that plays an important role in immune response and is…
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