Rates of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV infection before and after AIDS diagnosis

Abstract

People with HIV with mild immune deficiency prior to AIDS were at increased risk of anal cancer, but this may reflect other risk factors. Other cancers occurred only later in the course of HIV infection. This is reassuring evidence that people with HIV who are only mildly immune deficient may not be at increased risk of non-AIDS-defining cancers, but larger studies with longer periods of follow-up are needed to confirm this.