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Malignancies in HIV‐infected Thai patients *
Author(s) -
Kiertiburanakul S,
Likhitpongwit S,
Ratanasiri S,
Sungkanuparph S
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
hiv medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.53
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1468-1293
pISSN - 1464-2662
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-1293.2007.00471.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , lymphoma , sarcoma , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cancer , breast cancer , gastroenterology , immunology , pathology
Of 1416 HIV‐infected patients seen at Ramathibodi Hospital over a 5‐year period (1999–2003), 42 were diagnosed with malignancies, giving a prevalence of 3%. Twenty‐one of these patients (50%) were men and their mean age was 40.8 years. The median CD4 cell count was 235 cells/μL. AIDS‐related malignancies were found in 26 patients (62%). The most common AIDS‐related malignancies were non‐Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) (33%), cervical cancer (21%) and Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) (5%). Breast cancer was the most common non‐AIDS‐related malignancy (10%). Eleven patients (26%) died. The 75% survival time of patients who received treatment for their malignancy was longer than that of patients who received no treatment (18.3 vs 1.2 months; P <0.01).