Disease Associations
"Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Recent Trends in Cancers among HIV Infected Persons."
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, May 25th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 2nd National AIDS Malignancy Conference, held April 6-8, 1998, in Bethesda, Maryland, "Background: Antiretroviral therapy may slow the progression of HIV related disease and effect the occurrence of cancers in HIV infected persons. We examined recent incidence trends in 7 cancers (Kaposi's sarcoma [KS], invasive cervical cancer, immunoblastic lymphoma, primary brain lymphoma [PBL], Burkitt's lymphoma, other non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma) and the effect of antiretroviral therapy on these trends. Methods: We used data abstracted from medical records in 89 hospitals and clinics 1/94 - 12/96 in 9 U.S....
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