Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London

AIDS-related NHL is treated traditionally as supportive care improves

Published in Hospital Business Week, June 27th, 2004

AIDS-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma is treated traditionally as supportive care improves.

According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Treatment Reviews, "As we enter the third decade of the AIDS epidemic, it is apparent that a large number of cancers are more common in people with the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) remains the second most common tumor in such patients. At the onset of the epidemic, dose-intense combination regimens were used but these were quickly abandoned in favor of dose-modified strategies because of difficulties in tolerating aggressive chemotherapy in the presence of underlying...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2004-06-27)

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