title: Autoimmunity and malignancy.
abstract: This article reviews the theoretical and clinical relationships among autoimmune, musculoskeletal, connective tissue syndromes, and various malignancies. The most common tumors encountered in clinical practice, and the syndromes with which patients present, are approached in terms of their direct or indirect relationship to the malignancies.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D003240:Connective Tissue Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D012216:Rheumatic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies