When I pressed my drs as to the reason, they said that after 9 yrs on methotrexate, my risk of lymphoma was exceptionally high, particularly as I have had
breast cancer, which had spread to the lymph nodes in my armpit, and my father died of colon cancer. I am still on weekly mtx, and infusions of Remicade every 8 weeks as a day patient in hospital. My gastro wants to wean me off mtx, but we need to do it slowly.