Rheumatoid arthritis is the autoimmune disorder that attacks the synovial membranes of joints and other tissues.
glomerulonephritis
Psoriasis.
In modern countries goiters are usually from autoimmune attacks on the thyroid. Autoimmune diseases( where the body attacks itself) are more common in women.
the same ones that attack it
Crohn's disease is an autoimmune disorder that attacks the digestive system. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder that attacks the joints.
Autoimmune Disorder
They are both Autoimmune diseases, that is, when your body attacks itself. So if an individual were predisposed to autoimmune responses, it would be possible that one could have them both simultaneously. In other words, They can be.
You are referring to autoimmune disease - there are many depending on what systems in the body are effected.Graves disease and Hashimoto thyroiditis are forms of autoimmune thyroid disease -Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints -Lupus is a condition characterized by chronic inflammation of body tissues, also autoimmune -Scleroderma is an autoimmune disease of the connective tissue, it causes scar tissue to form where there is no injury -
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Multiple sclerosis
No. In an autoimmune disease, the body attacks his own cells which become for unkonwn reason recognized as a foreign body (antigen). While in cancer, certain body cells divide without control. So autoimmune and cancer indicate unrelated terms.