These Infections Lead to Many Cancers Among People With HIV

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These Infections Lead to Many Cancers Among People With HIV

Herpes virus, Epstein-Barr virus, and human papillomavirus (HPV) can put you at a raised risk for Kaposi sarcoma (KS), lymphomas, and anal and genital cancers if you’re living with HIV.

In fact, in recent studies, these types of infections were a particularly notable cause of cancers among patients 20 to 29 years old. As a risk group, MSM had the highest proportion of infection-related cancers.

So, I think that smoking cessation is an important public health goal, but I think that the recent focus on smoking for people with HIV is based on a Danish study, and is kind of missing the point that in the US we need to first and foremost improve access to treatment. Because for many of these infection-related cancers, the only option is close monitoring and cART to prevent immunosupression.

Also, I didn’t realize that there weren’t good screening tools for anal HPV. All the more reason to vaccinate going forward.