Posted on October 06, 2015
Source: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/study-estimates-hiv-infected-individuals-have-increased-cumulative-incidence-of-lifetime
"This analysis provides easily interpretable information for HIV patients and their providers about their long-term cancer risk, and helps us identify where public health and clinical efforts should be focused to achieve the biggest impacts," said co-author Richard D. Moore, MD, MHS, of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and overall principal investigator of the North American Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD).
"In the era before antiretroviral therapy, people who were infected with HIV were dying of AIDS. Now that use of this therapy is greatly increasing the lifespan of HIV-infected patients, their risk of developing other diseases, such as cancer, has increased," said lead author Michael J. Silverberg, PhD, MPH, Research Scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. "These patients have a higher burden of cancer compared with the general population due to impaired immune function and chronic inflammation, as well as a higher prevalence of risk factors including smoking and viral co-infections."
