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"Childhood Cancers in Zambia Before and After the HIV Epidemic."

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 25th, 1995

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, "Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related cancers in children are not as common and as well described as in adults. An HIV epidemic has been prevalent in Zambia since 1983-1984. To study the effect of the epidemic on the epidemiology of cancers in children a retrospective study was undertaken at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH), Lusaka, Zambia. All the histopathological records from 1980 to 1992 were reviewed and all cases of cancers in children less than 14 years of age were analyzed. In order to define the effect of the HIV epidemic, the epidemiological features of various...

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