Drop in AIDS-Related Cancers - U.S. Report

April 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Cases of AIDS-related cancers declined among people living with HIV in the United States, but other cancers are in March in this group has a new study.

Three types of cancer - Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and invasive cancer of the neck - are the diseases included in the criteria, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention SU to use if a person with HIV has developed AIDS.

The study, by researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention SU, found that these AIDS-defining cancers decreased by three times from 34 000 cases between 1991 and 1995 about 10,000 cases in 2001 and 2005.

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They attributed the decline to the introduction in 1996 of highly active antiretroviral therapy improves immune function, reduces the risk of progression to AIDS and significantly improves survival in people infected with HIV.

But the study also found that the total number of all other cancers in people living with HIV has tripled from approximately 3000 cases between 1991 and 1995 to nearly 10,000 cases between 2001 and 2005.

The results were published online April 11 Journal of National Cancer Institute.

"Our study found significant increases in a number of malignancies related to cancer risk factors that are known to be common in this population, such as smoking and infection with the virus that causes cancer," study author S. Meredith Shiels, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, said in a press magazines. "There was also an increase of almost all other types of cancer, which is what one would expect an aging population."

Lead researcher Dr. Eric A. Engels, co-Shiels, said in the statement that "changes in the number and types of cancer for people living with HIV / AIDS underscores the need for research focusing on cancer prevention needs of this population, including smoking cessation, treatment of hepatitis B and C, viral infections and the prevention and detection of HPV-related cancers. "

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