HIV/AIDS Cancer Immunology
Findings from Karolinska Hospital, Department of Oncology provide new insights into HIV/AIDS cancer immunology
Published in Hospital Business Week, August 5th, 2007
Researchers detail in "Oral Kaposi's sarcoma in Tanzania: presentation, immunopathology and human herpesvirus-8 association," new data in HIV/AIDS cancer. According to recent research from Stockholm, Sweden, "Oral Kaposi's sarcoma (OKS) from Tanzanian patients (78) at Muhimbili National Hospital/Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences corresponding to approximately 10% of KS registered during 1990-2005, were diagnosed (ELISA) as HIV-infected (OAKS) (74/78) and endemic KS (4/78). Females were 69.2% (54/78) with median age 31 and males 30.8% (24/78) with median age 38."
"More males (50%) had systemic KS than females (37%) and 4-times more multicentric OKS. All...
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