Spectrum of AIDS-associated malignant disorders.

Background: To clarify which types of cancer result from AIDS, we compared the cancer experiences of people with AIDS with those of the general population by matching population-based cancer and AIDS registries in the USA and Puerto Rico.Methods: We used a probabilistic matching algorithm to compare...

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Published in:Lancet Vol. 351; no. 9119; pp. 1833 - 1840
Main Authors: Goedert JJ, Cote TR, Virgo P, Scoppa SM, Kingma DW, Gail MH, Jaffe ES, Biggar RJ, Goedert, J J, Coté, T R, Virgo, P, Scoppa, S M, Kingma, D W, Gail, M H, Jaffe, E S, Biggar, R J
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Published: Lancet 6/20/1998
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          Kingma DW
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          Goedert, J J
          Coté, T R
          Virgo, P
          Scoppa, S M
          Kingma, D W
          Gail, M H
          Jaffe, E S
          Biggar, R J
        affil: Viral Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
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          Neoplasms Epidemiology
          Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Complications
          Confidence Intervals
          Relative Risk
          Registries, Disease
          United States
          Disease Surveillance
          Risk Factors
          Incidence
          Prevalence
          Epidemiological Research
          Sarcoma, Kaposi's Epidemiology
          Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin's Epidemiology
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      ab: Background: To clarify which types of cancer result from AIDS, we compared the cancer experiences of people with AIDS with those of the general population by matching population-based cancer and AIDS registries in the USA and Puerto Rico.Methods: We used a probabilistic matching algorithm to compare names, birth dates, and, where available, social-security numbers of 98,336 people with AIDS and 1,125,098 people with cancer aged less than 70 years. We defined AIDS-related cancers as those with both significantly raised incidence post-AIDS and increasing prevalence from 5 years pre-AIDS to 2 years post-AIDS.Findings: Among people with AIDS, we found 7028 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), 1793 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and 712 other cases of histologically defined cancer. Incidence rates among people with AIDS were increased 310-fold for KS, 113-fold for NHL, and 1.9-fold (95% CI 1.5-2.3) for other cancers. Of 38 malignant disorders other than KS and NHL, only angiosarcoma (36.7-fold), Hodgkin's disease (7.6-fold), multiple myeloma (4.5-fold), brain cancer (3.5-fold), and seminoma (2.9-fold) were raised and increasing significantly (p<0.02) from the pre-AIDS to the post-AIDS period.Interpretation: Interpretation is complicated by screening and shared risk factors, such as sexual behaviour and cigarette smoking. However, our data indicate that AIDS leads to a significantly increased risk of Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma, brain cancer, and seminoma. Immunological failure to control herpes or other viral infections may contribute to these malignant diseases.
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