Evolving epidemiology of HIV-associated malignancies.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

The purpose of this review is to describe the epidemiology of cancers that occur at an elevated rate among people with HIV infection in the current treatment era, including discussion of the cause of these cancers, as well as changes in cancer incidence and burden over time.

Recent findings

Rates of Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and cervical cancer have declined sharply in developed countries during the highly active antiretroviral therapy era, but remain elevated 800-fold, 10-fold and four-fold, respectively, compared with the general population. Most studies have reported significant increases in liver cancer rates and decreases in lung cancer over time. Although some studies have reported significant increases in anal cancer rates and declines in

SUBMITTER: Shiels MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5240042 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature