tokens: Topics reviewed here include : data supporting the association of myositis with cancer and the appropriate evaluations for malignancy in a myositis patient ; an approach to the assessment of patients with dermatomyositis sine myositis ; the usefulness of the clinicopathological and serological classifications ; a discussion of whether childhood and adult myositis are the same or different entities ; a review of those prognostic factors to consider in the clinical management of myositis patients ; current approaches and their limitations for assessing disease activity and damage .