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  • Cervical and anal screening

    Infection with certain types of a common virus called human papillomavirus, or HPV, can cause cell changes in the cervix that can lead to cervical cancer. All HIV-positive...

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  • Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

    Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is an AIDS-defining cancer. A lymphoma is the name given to a tumour (or growth) of lymphocytes (white blood cells). Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL)...

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  • Kaposi's sarcoma

    Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an AIDS-defining cancer and was one of the first recognised HIV-related illnesses in the early 1980s. Unlike most cancers, which start...

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  • Lung cancer

    Evidence from the UK and other countries shows that lung cancer is more common in HIV-positive people than the general HIV-negative population. Before effective HIV treatment...

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  • Cervical cancer

    Human papillomavirus (HPV), is the underlying cause of cervical cancer. Infection with HPV is very common in the general population and is slightly more common...

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  • Anal cancer

    Since potent and effective HIV treatment became available, the number of cases of the AIDS-defining cancers such as Kaposi’s sarcoma and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma has fallen,...

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  • Cancer

    Cancers are a range of diseases caused by uncontrolled cell division. A number of cancers occur more frequently among people with HIV than in the general...

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  • Hodgkin's disease

    Hodgkin's disease is a type of lymphoma - a tumour of lymph nodes - named after Thomas Hodgkin, a pathologist who first described it in...

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  • Kaposi's sarcoma

    Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was first described in 1872 by the Hungarian dermatologist Moritz Kaposi. Before the AIDS epidemic it was a rare condition. There are four...

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  • Lung cancer

    Lung cancer is not an AIDS-defining illness. However, people with HIV have a greater chance of developing lung cancer than non-infected people, and as...

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  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

    Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is a type of lymphoma - a tumour that involves the uncontrolled multiplication of a type of white blood cell called lymphocytes....

    From:HIV treatments directory

  • Non-HIV-related illnesses – cancers

    HIV treatment has brought longer and healthier lives for many people with HIV. Indeed, side-effects of treatment are the most likely cause of ill-health in...

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  • Cervical cancer a major threat to HIV-positive women

    HIV-positive women are living longer, but are now dying of cervical cancer. In Zimbabwe, cervical cancer is now the most common cancer among women, particularly those living with HIV. Activists are urging the government to step up efforts to prevent deaths related to the disease, accusing it of paying lip service to the problem.

    08 February 2013 | IRIN Plus News

  • Vaccine group funds cervical cancer immunizations for poor

    The GAVI global vaccines group is to help protect more than 180,000 girls in eight countries across Africa and Asia from cervical cancer by funding immunization projects with vaccines from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

    04 February 2013 | Reuters

  • HIV Patients At Two-Fold Higher Risk For Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers

    HIV-positive patients have a higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Specifically, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas occur more than twice as often among HIV-positive individuals compared to those who are HIV-negative.

    31 January 2013 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today

  • Cervical Cancer Screening In Less-Developed Areas Should Be Tailored To Local Conditions

    The best approach to detecting cervical cancer in HIV-positive women living in research limited countries such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa combines commonly used testing methods tailored to local levels of development and medical infrastructure, according to a study by researchers from and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and the University of North Carolina.

    16 January 2013 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today

  • Protease inhibitors linked to higher anal cancer rate in US group

    Longer treatment with protease inhibitors (PIs) independently raised the anal cancer rate in a study of men and women in California’s Kaiser Permanente healthcare system. Longer antiretroviral use lowered rates of AIDS-defining cancers.

    23 November 2012 | International AIDS Society

  • The connection between Fatty Liver Disease and the Increase in the Rate of Liver Cancer

    Researchers at the University of Missouri determined that cirrhosis was not present in more than one-third of patients who had nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) that led to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

    11 November 2012 | AASLD press release

  • HPV vaccine may benefit HIV-infected women

    Women with HIV may benefit from a vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV), despite having already been exposed to HPV, a study finds. Although many may have been exposed to less serious forms of HPV, more than 45 percent of sexually active young women who have acquired HIV appear never to have been exposed to the most common high-risk forms of HPV.

    09 November 2012 | NIH press release

  • Cancer doctors pledge to take prevention and treatment to the poor

    Aids doctors joined activists to lead the fight for treatment in the developing world. Cancer doctors are taking the first tentative steps towards adopting their mantle.

    05 November 2012 | The Guardian

  • SOUTHERN AFRICA: Governments failing to address cervical cancer

    Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in southern Africa, but new research reveals that governments' attempts to address the disease have been inadequate. Access to cervical cancer screening services is minimal, few countries in the region have policies on the disease, and treatment remains a major challenge.

    01 November 2012 | IRIN Plus News

  • Risk For Esophageal, Stomach Cancers Increased In Patients With AIDS

    People with AIDS are at increased risk for developing esophageal and stomach carcinoma as well as non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

    25 October 2012 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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