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Do you have information on methotrexate uses and effects?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Many and quite safe!: Mtx is used in many autoimmune diseases with great effect. The drug is given IV in high doses to treat cancer. In much lower doses, given subcutaneously like insulin, with fewer side-effects than the same oral dose, does not go to the liver. And you absorb 100%, not the 40-90% when taken by mouth. Great drug. Ist line in ra!
Answered 6/22/2016
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See web site: This is an excellent web site for the information you are looking for: http://www.Rheumatology.Org/practice/clinical/patients/medications/methotrexate.Asp.
Answered 9/12/2013
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