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I don’t see the above as equivalent efficacy of monotherapy TCZ vs combination. The DAS graph above, while not powered to show differences, shows clear trends (based on confidence intervals) that combo did work better than mono. I agree this is some of the best monotherapy data available, but MTX seems to add something in particular potentially for deeper responses which would account for the differences in absolute DAS without seeing a difference in ACR20.