Higher mortality risk from gynaecological neoplasms and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: an observational study from the Spanish National Registry.

Patients with SLE present a higher risk of death from vulvar neoplasms, cervical carcinomas and B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in comparison with the general Spanish population. In addition to developing strategies that might help to attenuate their occurrence and impact, such as decreasing the immunosuppressive burden, specific early detection programmes for these conditions should be investigated and considered carefully.