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Impact of the HIV Epidemic on the Incidence Rates of Anal Cancer in the United States
Author(s) -
Meredith S. Shiels,
Ruth M. Pfeiffer,
Anil K. Chaturvedi,
Aimée R. Kreimer,
Eric A. Engels
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
jnci journal of the national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.797
H-Index - 356
eISSN - 1460-2105
pISSN - 0027-8874
DOI - 10.1093/jnci/djs371
Subject(s) - anal cancer , medicine , incidence (geometry) , population , demography , cancer , confidence interval , cervical cancer , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
The risk of anal cancer is substantially increased in HIV-infected individuals. Thus, the HIV epidemic may have influenced the increasing anal cancer trends in the United States. We estimated the impact of the HIV epidemic on trends in anal cancer incidence in the United States during 1980-2005.

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