“…RA (in more than 90 countries worldwide) [36][37][38][39][40][41][42] Castleman's disease (in Japan) [52,53] Systemic and polyarticular JIA (in Japan) [57][58][59] Candidate diseases for tocilizumab therapy: Systemic autoimmune diseases SLE [130] Systemic sclerosis [115] Giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis [90,91] Polymyositis Organ specific autoimmune diseases Crohn's disease [73] Relapsing polychondritis [108] Multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica Acquired hemophilia A [149] Chronic inflammatory diseases Adult-onset Still's disease [61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] Reactive AA amyloidosis [48][49][50][51] Polymyalgia rheumatica [80,91] RS3PE [85] Spondyloarthritides [100,[102][103][104][105] Behcet's disease Uveitis GVHD [150] Autoinflammatory diseases (TRAPS) [152] Tocilizumab has been approved as a biological drug for the treatment of RA, Castleman's disease and juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and is expected to be applicable to various other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Abbreviations: RA, rheumatoid arthritis; JIA, juvenile idiopathic arthritis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; RS3PE, remitting seronegative, symmetrical synovitis with pitti...…”