A Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Tocilizumab in Adults With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Summary

A multi-center, open-label single-arm study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of tocilizumab administered as a single, weekly injection in adults with rheumatoid arthritis. Combination therapy with methotrexate or other non-biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) was permitted.

Timeline

Start

2014-01

Primary completion

2015-07

Completion

2015-07

Publications

• Choy E, Caporali R, Xavier R, Fautrel B, Sanmarti R, Bao M, Devenport J, Petho-Schramm A. Effects of concomitant glucocorticoids in TOZURA, a common-framework study programme of subcutaneous tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2019 Jun 1;58(6):1056-1064. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/key393.
• Choy E, Caporali R, Xavier R, Fautrel B, Sanmarti R, Bao M, Bernasconi C, Petho-Schramm A. Subcutaneous tocilizumab in rheumatoid arthritis: findings from the common-framework phase 4 study programme TOZURA conducted in 22 countries. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2018 Mar 1;57(3):499-507. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kex443.

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