HIV/AIDS Cancer

With "reasonable" CD4 counts, standard choriocarcinoma treatment feasible

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 23rd, 2004

Conventional therapy for choriocarcinoma is feasible for HIV-positive women with relatively high CD4 cell levels.

According to recent research from South Africa, "The appropriate management of gynecological malignancies in association with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is not established."

"To date the reported literature on the subject consists mainly of case reports," explained M. Moodley and coauthors at the University of Natal. "Due to the increasing prevalence of HIV infection, especially in sub-Saharan countries, the chances of finding both conditions in the same patient has produced management and ethical dilemmas."

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-02-23)

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