Category Archives: Cancer
What palliative care-related problems do patients experience at HIV diagnosis? A systematic review of the evidence
CONTEXT: Palliative care is an essential element of HIV care throughout the disease trajectory, but there is a lack of information to guide clinical care at HIV diagnosis. OBJECTIVES: This...
Anal human papillomavirus infection and associated neoplastic lesions in men who have sex with men: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at greatly increased risk of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated anal cancer. Screening for the presumed cancer precursor, high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN),...
Incidence of cancers in people with HIV/AIDS compared with immunosuppressed transplant recipients: A meta analysis
BACKGROUND: Only a few types of cancer are recognised as being directly related to immune deficiency in people with HIV/AIDS. Large population-based studies in transplant recipients have shown that a...
A meta-analysis of the incidence of non-AIDS cancers in HIV-infected individuals
OBJECTIVE: To estimate summary standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) of non-AIDS cancers among HIV-infected individuals compared with general population rates overall and stratified by gender, AIDS, and highly active antiretroviral therapy...
Interventions for treating AIDS-associated Hodgkin’ s lymphoma in treatment-naive adults
Background: Hodgkin’s disease (HD) is the most common non-AIDS-defining malignancy in HIV-infected patients. Its unusually aggressive tumour behaviour includes a higher frequency of unfavourable histologic subtypes, high-stage and extranodal involvement...