Kaposi Sarcoma

UNC scientist finds chief AIDS cancer needs trauma and virus to get started

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 20th, 2002

Kaposi sarcoma, the most common cancer that develops as people with the HIV virus progress to full-blown AIDS, appears to require some kind of trauma such as a cut or comparable injury to get started, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientist has discovered.

"We found that there are at least three key elements central to development of this important cancer," said Dr. Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, assistant professor of dental ecology and microbiology at the UNC schools of dentistry and medicine.

"One is suppression of the immune system, which HIV causes. The second is the presence of human herpesvirus 8, or HHV8, which Dr. Yuan Chang and...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-05-20)

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