Open AccessAssociation between HIV/AIDS and malignancies in a Nigerian tertiary institution
Author(s) -
S Ocheni,
Y A Aken'Ova
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
west african journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0189-160X
DOI - 10.4314/wajm.v23i2.28109
Subject(s) - medicine , lymphoma , seroprevalence , incidence (geometry) , sarcoma , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , cervix , serology , immunology , antibody , pathology , cancer , physics , optics
Following the outbreak of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in 1981, there has been a widespread increase in the incidence of many malignancies including non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cervical carcinoma and Kaposi's sarcoma. The scarcity of reports linking HIV infection with malignancies in Nigeria necessitated this study. We prospectively screened one hundred patients with various forms of malignancies seen at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Nigeria between October 2001 and June 2002 for HIV infection by the Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) method and confirmed with the Western Blot method.