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Astia Allenzara, MD, MSCR, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member interested in understanding risk factors for cancer development and modifiable factors for patients with rare autoimmune diseases.

MD, MSCR
Assistant Professor, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Cancer Epidemiology Research Program

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Area of Interest

My interest is in the intersection of autoimmune diseases and cancer. I treat patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (including dermatomyositis, anti-synthetase syndrome, immune mediated necrotizing myositis, overlap myositis, cancer associated myositis), scleroderma, mixed connective tissue disease, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, among other rheumatic diseases.

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