HIV Infection, Cancer Treatment Regimens, and Cancer Outcomes Among Elderly Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

HIV-infected patients with cancer have an elevated cancer-specific mortality rate compared with HIV-uninfected patients with cancer. However, to our knowledge, studies describing this association have not adjusted in detail for cancer treatment, despite evidence of suboptimal cancer treatment in the setting of HIV.

Objective

To compare cancer-specific mortality in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients with cancer after adjusting for available data on receipt of specific cancer treatments.

Design, setting, and participants

We used Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare linked data to identify 308 268 patients in the United States (age, ≥65 years), including 288 with HIV infection, with nonadvanced cancers of the colorectum, lung, prostate, o

SUBMITTER: Coghill AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6681563 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature