Alice, Eloi, Magali and Robert: the lives of four patients with psoriasis and the therapeutic approaches of eight European experts

Combination therapy of methotrexate plus NBUVB phototherapy is more effective than methotrexate monotherapy in the treatment of chronic plaque psoriasis

“…MTX is, thus, the mainstay when costs are taken into consideration. MTX could be combined with many anti-psoriatic agents either topical or systemic to maximize its effectiveness in the treatment of psoriasis (3). Phototherapy is a relatively safe and very effective treatment modality.…”

Psoriasis: an evidence-based update. Report of the 9th Evidenced Based Update Meeting, 12 May 2011, Loughborough, U.K.

“…However, the deficiencies in the evidence were clear to see: many trials are still relatively short with clinical and methodological heterogeneity, lack of effective treatments for nail psoriasis and PPP, a need for long‐term safety trials for various agents including potent and superpotent topical corticosteroids, as well as combination of biologics with phototherapy or other systemic treatments, and routine assessment of quality of life in trials with topical treatments. Numerous publications are currently produced in this field and it is hoped that with the aid of the Evidence Based Update Meeting and similar steering meetings the above deficiencies might be adequately addressed in due course 72–163 . The feedback from the delegates was very positive: 60% said the meeting was extremely useful and 39% useful.…”