Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST R0xUj85d. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Malignancies, particularly Kaposi's sarcoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), are associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Cancer incidence among 1,073 asymptomatic HIV-infected individuals from the Pulmonary Complications of HIV Infection Study cohort, persons from six states followed from 1988 to 1994, was examined. Total cancer incidence was 3.99/100 person-years ; for Kaposi's sarcoma, incidence was 2.64 cases/100 person-years, and for NHL, it was 1.18 cases/100 person-years. Total cancer (n=156 cases) was higher among nonblacks than among blacks (rate ratio=2.8,95% confidence interval 1.3-6.1), with similar results for Kaposi's sarcoma and NHL. The rate of lung cancer (n=5) among white, homosexual/bisexual males was 0.18 per 100 person-years, suggesting a high risk of lung cancer.
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