Abstract

The TENDER clinical trial is a three-part, 5-year, phase 3 study with tocilizumab (TCZ) in active systemic JIA (sjia). After 2 years of treatments, sjia patients who have maintained clinically inactive disease for 3 months are given the option to participate in an alternative TCZ dosing regimen aimed at spacing the infusions and eventually withdrawing TCZ.

Highlights

  • The TENDER clinical trial is a three-part, 5-year, phase 3 study with tocilizumab (TCZ) in active systemic JIA

  • To qualify for the optional alternative dosing schedule (OADS), patients had to be in the study for 2 years and have achieved ACR JIA inactive disease status

  • Among the 112 patients enrolled, 39 (35%) entered the optional alternative dosing regimen

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Introduction

The TENDER clinical trial is a three-part, 5-year, phase 3 study with tocilizumab (TCZ) in active systemic JIA (sjia). After 2 years of treatments, sjia patients who have maintained clinically inactive disease for 3 months are given the option to participate in an alternative TCZ dosing regimen aimed at spacing the infusions and eventually withdrawing TCZ

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