Cancer risk in HIV-infected people in the USA from 1996 to 2012: a population-based, registry-linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring cancer risk among HIV-infected people in the modern antiretroviral therapy (ART) era is essential given their elevated risk for many cancers and prolonged survival with immunosuppression, ART exposure, and ageing. We aimed to examine cancer risk in HIV-infected people in the USA as compared with that in the general population.

Methods

We did a registry-linkage study with data from population-based HIV and cancer registries in the USA (the HIV/AIDS Cancer Match Study). We assessed a cohort of HIV-infected people identified in HIV registries in Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, and Texas from 1996 to 2012. Follow-up started 3 months after either the latest of the beginning of systematic name-based state

SUBMITTER: Hernandez-Ramirez RU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5669995 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature