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Comparisons of Causes of Death and Mortality Rates among

HIV-Infected Persons

Mortality in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

Era:(Changing Causes of Death and Disease in the HIV
Outpatient Study)

Hepatitis B and HIV: prevalence, AIDS progression, response to

highly active antiretroviral therapy and increased mortality in the
EuroSIDA cohort.

Mortality in well controlled HIV in the continuous antiretroviral

therapy arms of the SMART and ESPRIT trials compared with
the general population

HIV-Infected Adults with a CD4 Cell Count Greater Than 500

Cells/mm3 on Long-Term Combination Antiretroviral Therapy
Reach Same Mortality Rates as the General Population

Causes of death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)infected adults in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy:
emerging role of hepatitis and cancers, persistent role of AIDS

Rates of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV infection

before and after AIDS diagnosis

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Introduction:
Seven articles have been studied and a brief introduction is given below.

Comparisons of Causes of Death and Mortality Rates among HIV-Infected Persons.

Mortality in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era:(Changing Causes of Death
and Disease in the HIV Outpatient Study)
Hepatitis B and HIV: prevalence, AIDS progression, response to highly active
antiretroviral therapy and increased mortality in the EuroSIDA cohort.
Mortality in well controlled HIV in the continuous antiretroviral therapy arms of the
SMART and ESPRIT trials compared with the general population
HIV-Infected Adults with a CD4 Cell Count Greater Than 500 Cells/mm3 on Long-Term
Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Reach Same Mortality Rates as the General
Population.
Causes of death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults in the era
of potent antiretroviral therapy: emerging role of hepatitis and cancers, persistent role of
AIDS.
Rates of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV infection before and after AIDS
diagnosis.

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Article #1: Comparisons of Causes of Death and Mortality Rates among HIVInfected Persons.
Introduction: HIV mortality rates have dramatically declined since the availability of highly
active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and effective prophylaxis for those who taking immediate
advantage contagion. Prearranged escalating anti retroviral associated complications and
confrontation, on the other hand, dwindle in bereavement will be unremitting is disputed. But in
a few researches data demonstrated that augment level in rates of death attributable to AIDSdefining conditions. A recent study by Jain ET al15 found that most deaths occurred among
patients with a compact disk reckon of, 200 cells/mL and foremost foundation of death remained
Pneumocystis carinii (jiroveci) pneumonia (PCP). Other studies have shown an increasing
proportion of deaths attributable to non-HIVrelated conditions, especially that of liver failure.3,
In some cohorts, liver disease now accounts for greater than 50% of the deaths among patients
with a CD4 count .200 cells/mL or an undetectable HIV viral pack. deviating consequences
concerning the source of death are likely related to the underlying characteristics of the study
populations, including inject able drug use, confection with hepatitis B and C, prescription
observance, and the accessibility of antiretroviral. In addition, patients with private insurance
have been shown to receive more intensive drug regimens and to have lower transience rates. A
learning in the midst of patients with unwrap admittance to medical care as well as a low rate of
drug use and hepatitis C co infection may provide some insight regarding the effects of these
barriers on overall mortality. We evaluated such a inhabitants, US martial receiver, to evaluate
origin of death and mortality rates in this cohort during the years 1990 through 2003.
Methods: Comparisons of death-related variables during the 3 eras were performed. Data
collected during an HIV natural history study were retrospectively analyzed for causes of death
and annual death rates. The original study is an ongoing, prospective, continuous enrollment,
longitudinal cohort study conducted among HIV-infected Department of Defense (DoD)
beneficiaries as part of the Tri service AIDS Clinical Consortium funded jointly by the US
Military HIV Research Program and the National Institutes of Health.
Results: The number of deaths declined over the study era, with 987 deaths in the early
HAARTera (19971999), and 78 deaths in the late HAART era (20002003) (P, 0.01). The
annual death rate wormed out in 1995. This rate of deaths contributed the study of decrease in
death due to infection, but virus lingered the foremost reason of bereavement in our legion,
followed by cancer. Of those who went into bereavement, there was an escalating percentage of
non-HIVrelated deaths (32% vs. 9%; P, 0.01), including cardiac disease (22% vs. 8%; P , 0.01)
and trauma (8% vs. 2%; P = 0.01) in the post-HAART versus pre-HAART era. Regardless of the
nonappearance of intravenous remedy utilize and the low pervasiveness of hepatitis C co
infection in our legion, an escalating fraction of deaths in the HAART era was considerable to
liver syndrome, even though the statistics are diminutive.
Conclusions: instead of escalating use of antiretroviral drugs, the bereavement rate among
HIV-infected persons in our followers goes on to decline stage. Data representing relatively
lower rate of bereavement than that reported among many other US HIV-infected populations;
this may be the result of open access to health care.

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Article #2:Mortality in the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Era:(Changing

Causes of Death and Disease in the HIV Outpatient Study)
Background: Noticeable and constant diminution in AIDS-related bereavement and those
seeks and takes immediate advantage regarding disease cure have been experimental as a upshot
of the extensive use of exceedingly energetic antiretroviral rehabilitation (HAART) since 1996 in
the United States and Europe. These reimbursements have been experiential transversely
assorted patient populations and have resulted in lingering disease-free endurance, resilient HIV
virologist containment, immunologic (CD4 cell) repletion, and lessening in hospitalization rates.
AIDS-related death and ailment rates have turn down in the extremely vigorous antiretroviral
therapy (HAART) era and hang about to low level; however, current causes of death in HAARTtreated patients stay behind the ill defined.
Objective: To portray transience inclination and grounds of death among HIV-infected patients
in the HAART era. Devise: forthcoming, multicenter, observational followers study of
contributor in the HIV Outpatient Study who was extravagance from January 1996 through
December 2004.Measurements: Rates of death, opportunistic disease, and other nonYAIDSdefining illnesses (NADIs) unwavering to be primary or secondary causes of death.
Results: The 6945 patients analyzed had a norm transcribe of 39.2 months. Year 1996 to 2004,
we acknowledged no of expired people were 702. Death rates take a rain check from 7 out 100
person to 1.3 out of 100 persons from years 1996 to 2004 (P = 0.008 for trend) and steady at
roughly 2.0 bereavements per 100 person between the era of 1999 to onward three or four years
after this era further decrease in death rate was noted. Over this equivalent phase, HAART
exploitation rates ascended from 43% of patients in 1996 to 82% in 2004. Since 1999, about 78%
of HOPS participants received HAART. Comparative augment in bereavement connecting liver
syndrome, bacteremia/sepsis, gastrointestinal disease, non-AIDS malignancies, and renal ailment
also transpires (P = G0.001, 0.017, 0.006, G0.001, and 0.037, respectively.) Hepatic malady was
the solitary testimony source of death for which untaught rates augmented over time, although
not drastically, from 0.09/100 person-years in 1996 to 0.16/100 person years in 2004 (P = 0.10).
The percentage of deaths utterly to NADI increased from13.1%in 1996 to 42.5%in 2004 (P G
0.001 for trend). Mean CD4 cell counts contiguous to death (n = 486 deaths) augmented from59
cells/KL in 1996 to 287 cells/KL in 2004 (P G 0.001 for trend). Patients dying of NADI causes
were more HAART knowledgeable and instigated HAART at higher CD4 cell counts than those
who died with AIDS (34.5% vs 16.8%, correspondingly, customary HAART for 4 of more years,
P G 0.0001; 22.4% vs 7.8%, correspondingly, instigated HAART with CD4 cell counts of more
than 350 cells/KL, P G 0.001).
Conclusions: Even though on the whole bereavement rates lingered squat through 2004, the
percentage of deaths participate to non-AIDS ailment amplified and outstandingly incorporated
hepatic, cardiovascular, and pulmonary ailments, as well as non-AIDS malignancies. Longer
moment depleted being paid HAART and higher CD4 sect counts at HAART commencement
were connected with death from non-AIDS causes. In wrapping up, in an epoch for the duration
of which HIV-infected persons consistently subsist longer as a result of judicious intercession
with HAART, it is imperative for clinicians to be sentient that other fundamental,
nontraditionally HIV-related circumstances are ever added likely to outline outstandingly in the
threat for death and disease.

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Article#3Hepatitis B and HIV: prevalence, AIDS progression, response to highly

active antiretroviral therapy and increased mortality in the EuroSIDA cohort.
Background: it is being judged that hepatitis B (HBV) co infectivity impinges on upshot in
HIV-1 contaminated patients ruins indistinguishable.
Objective: To evaluate the pervasiveness of HBV (evaluated as HBsAg) co infectivity and its
promising contact on evolution to AIDS, all basis on bereavements, bereavement due to death
and rejoinder to exceedingly dynamic antiretroviral remedy (HAART) in the EuroSIDA
followers.
Methods: statistics on 9802 patients in 72 European HIV centers were scrutinized.
Commonness rates of AIDS, inclusive transience and liver similarity causing related transience,
time to 25% CD4 sect reckoning amplify and moment to viral load < 400 copies/ml after starting
HAART were calculated and compared between HBsAg-positive and HBsAg-negative patients.
Results: Among the 9802 individuals enrolled in EuroSIDA, 5728 (58.4%) were tested for
HBsAg before or at enrolment. The 3354 patients that had not been tested were in general
recruited earlier in EuroSIDA (July 1994 versus April 1997; P < 0.0001) and came more
frequently from south or central Europe or Argentina. They were also more likely to have been
exposed to HIV by intravenous drug use (data not shown). These subjects had a lower median
CD4 cell count at enrolment [182 _ 106 cells/l; inter quartile range (IQR), 60325; P < 0.0001], a
higher median viral load (3.53 log10 copies/ml; IQR 2.604.60; P < 0.0001), were more likely to
have prior AIDS and to be treatment naive, and 17.9% received a HAART therapy compared
with 40.7% of the HBsAg tested patients (P < 0.0001). Of patients with known HBsAg status at
enrolment, 498 (8.7%) were positive. The highest prevalence of HBsAg positive patients was
found in Argentina (17.8%) then in northern and central Europe (9.1%) and then in southern
(8.9%), and eastern Europe (5.9%) (P 0.0014). Comparing HBsAg-positive with HBsAgnegative patients, there was a significantly higher proportion of Caucasians, of males and a
greater rate of homosexual transmission of HIV (Table 1). The median date of recruitment was
similar for HBsAg-positive and HBsAg negative subjects (April 1997; P 0.16) as was the
proportion of patients who were treatment naive or had started HAART or any other
antiretroviral treatment at enrolment (P 0.32). The median duration of HIV infection was
longer in HBsAg-positive patients (5.3 years) compared with HBsAg-negative subjects (4.2
years) (P < 0.0001). HBsAg-positive individuals had significantly lower CD4 cell counts at
enrolment (median 232 _ 106 cells/l) compared with HBsAg-negative subjects (median 275 _
106 cells/l) (P < 0.0001), and the HBsAg-positive individuals had a lower nadir CD4 cell count
(Table 1). In addition, the median viral load was higher in HBsAg-positive patients (3.32 log10
copies/ml) compared with HBsAg-negative patients (3.06 log10 copies/ml) (P 0.031). Co
infection with HCV was found more frequently in the HBsAg-positive (29.9%) than in the
HBsAg-negative (25.2%) group (P 0.031). The incidence of a new AIDS-defining event was
comparable between HBsAg-positive and HBsAg-negative patients: 3.3/100 person-years [95%
confidence interval (CI), 2.64.1] and 3.4/100 person-years (95% CI, 3.13.6), respectively.
After adjustment in multivariate analysis, the IRR of developing a new AIDS event was 0.94
(95% CI, 0.741.19; P 0.61) for the HBsAg positive group compared with the negative group.
When viral load was a covariate, the adjusted IRR remained similar but with wider confidence
interval.

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Conclusions: The prevalence of HBV co infection was 9% in the EuroSIDA followers.

persistent HBV contagion drastically enlarged liver-related transience in HIV-1-infected patients
but did not brunt on evolution to AIDS or on viral and immunological responses to HAART.

Article # 4: Mortality in well controlled HIV in the continuous antiretroviral

therapy arms of the SMART and ESPRIT trials compared with the general
population
Background: Due to the triumph of antiretroviral therapy (ART), it is appropriate to invite
whether bereavement rates in optimally treated HIV are elevated than the broad-spectrum
inhabitants. The intention was to judge against transience rates in glowing controlled HIVinfected adults in the SMART and ESPRIT experimental trials with the wide-ranging population.
Methods: Non-IDUs aged 2070 years from the unremitting ART have power over arms of
ESPRIT and SMART were incorporated if the individual had both low HIV plasma viral loads
(_400 copies/ml SMART, _500 copies/ml ESPRIT) and high CD4 T-cell counts (_350 cells/ml)
at any time in the past 6 months. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated by
comparing death rates with the Human Mortality Database total of 3280 individuals contributed
follow-up time to the analysis, 1971 (60.1%) from SMART and 1309 (39.9%) from ESPRIT
(Table 1). Of these, 665 (20.3%) were women and 2615 (79.7%) men. The median age at
randomization was 43 years inter quartile range (IQR) 3750 years]. At randomization, 2516
(76.7%) had a suppressed viral load (_400 copies/ml SMART,500 copies/ml ESPRIT). The
median (IQR) CD4 T-cell count at randomization was 535 (420724) cells/ml and the median
(IQR) observed nadir CD4 T-cell count was 228 (120341) cells/ml. In terms of viral hepatitis
co infections, 4.4% had hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and 7.7% had hepatitis C virus (HCV)
disease. one fourth have a preceding AIDS illness (ADI) prior to indiscriminate. Mostly those
were engaged from North America (1746, 53.2%) and Europe (1314, 40.1%). The others were
recruited from Australasia (178, 5.4%), Asia (18, 0.6%) and South America (24, 0.7%).
Individuals contributed a total of 12 357 person-years of eligible follow-up to the foremost
investigation. The medium extent of follow-up was 3.1 years (IQR 1.95.5). Sixty two deaths
occurred all through follow-up, benevolent an generally transience rate of 5.02 per 1000 personyears [95% confidence interval (CI) 3.856.43]. The commonest cause of death was
cardiovascular disease (CVD) or sudden death (19, 31%), followed by non-AIDS malignancy
(12, 19%), unnatural deaths (accident, suicide or violent death) in 11 cases (18%), non-AIDS and
non hepatitis infection (six, 10%) and liver disease (five, 8%). Only two deaths (3%) were AIDSrelated. The source of casualty was unidentified in one case (2%) the observed death rates and
SMRs standardized by age and sex and country for the main analysis (A) and the two sensitivity
analyses (B) and (C). For the main analysis, 62 deaths were observed in 12 357 years of followup, giving an overall SMR of 1.24 (95% CI 0.951.59). For individuals with a CD4 T-cell
count between 350 and 499cells/ml, 28 deaths were observed (against 16 expected) in 3729 years
of trail up, demonstrating that transience rate was augmented compared with the background
population (SMR 1.77, 95% CI 1.172.55). However, for individuals with CD4 T-cell counts
above 500 cells/ml, nix verification for augmented transience was seen with an SMR of 1.00
(95% CI 0.691.40). In the first sensitivity analysis (B), the SMR overall was similar to the
background population at 1.00 (95% CI 0.731.34). No increased mortality was found in
stratification by CD4 T-cell counts. In the second sensitivity analysis (C) in which the data were
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not censored on the basis of viral load or CD4 T-cell counts after meeting our standard
criterion, we initiate that generally SMR amplified and judge against with the general population
(1.57, 95% CI 1.261.94).
Conclusion: In HIV-infected persons on knack, with a topical unnoticeable viral stack, Who
maintained or had recovery of CD4 cell counts to at least 500 cells/ml, we identified no
evidence for a raised risk of death compared with the general population.

Article # 5: HIV-Infected Adults With a CD4 Cell Count Greater Than 500
Cells/mm3 on Long-Term Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Reach Same
Mortality Rates as the General Population.
Objective: To evaluate transience rates in amalgamation antiretroviral therapy (cART)treated
HIV-infected adults with mortality in the general population according to the level of CD4 cell
count reached and the duration of exposure to cART.
Methods: HIV-infected adults initiating a protease inhibitor containing treatment between
1997 and 1999 were selected in the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida et les hepatites
virales (ANRS) APROCO and AQUITAINE allies. CD4 cell counts were predictable all through
follow-up using a 2-phase mixed linear model. Standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were
computed in reference to the 2002 French inhabitants rates, taken as a whole and for the time
epoch tired with a CD4 count $500 cells/mm3. To identify if and when mortality rates reached
values of the wide-ranging population, SMRs were subtracted sequentially with truncation at
each year of follow-up.
Results: A total of 2435 patients (1281 from the APROCOPILOTE cohort and 1154 from the
AQUITAINE cohort) were included in the analysis. The median patient age was 36 years; 77%
were men; and HIV transmission categories were homosexual or bisexual in 38%, heterosexual
in 35%, and injecting drug use in 21% of cases. Overall, 29% of patients were HCV infected
(88% among patients infected through injecting drug use). The median CD4 count was 270
cells/mm3 at the time of ART initiation, 16% of patients had a CD4 cell count $500 cells/mm3 ,
and 19% of patients had a CD4 cell count between 350 and 499 cells/mm3. At baseline, 22% had
a previous AIDS-defining clinical event; 39% had previously received antiretroviral treatment
with 1 or 2 drugs; and the first PI prescribed was indinavir in 43%, nelfinavir in 31%, saquinavir
in 16%, and ritonavir in 15%. Estimated CD4 counts were $500 cells/mm3 in 39% of the 1949
patients still followed 3 years after cART initiation and in 49% of the 1430 patients still followed
at 6 years .During a median follow-up of 6.8 years (in range [IQR]: 4.1 to 7.9, 13,970 PYs), 288
individuals die d, 2.1 deaths per 100 PYs (95% CI: 1.8 to 2.3). Overall mortality was 7.0 times
higher than in the broad inhabitants, 4.8 in men and 13.0 in women, 16.3 in introducing drug
users, and 13.9 in HCV coinfected patients (Table 1). Considering the total time spent within
each category of CD4 cell count, transience hang about elevated level than in the broad-spectrum
population in all categories and SMRs were gradually higher when CD4 cell counts were lower
In patients with a CD4 count $500 cells/mm3, however, mortality reached the level of the
general population after the sixth year after initiation of cART). Considering the time spent in the
category of a CD4 count from 350 to 499 cells/mm3 , the SMR was lower after 6 years but
remained around twice the mortality of the general population. Overall, the underlying cause of
death was AIDS related in 35% of cases, and in 52%, 21%, 15%, and 8% when the CD4 count at
the age of death was ,200 cells/mm3, 200 to 349 cells/mm3,350 to 499 cells/mm3, and $500
cells/mm.
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Conclusion: Even though generally transience was elevated in cART-treated HIV-infected

adults, a subgroup with especially good prognosis can be identified, and these characteristics
should be targeted for long term treatment.

Article # 6: Causes of death among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)infected adults in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: emerging role of
hepatitis and cancers, persistent role of AIDS.
Background: In the epoch of very much dynamic antiretroviral therapy (HAART) transience
has dwindle significantly among human being impervious scarcity virus (HIV)-infected people
with admittance to HAART, but there are apprehensions concerning co-morbidities and
unpleasant belongings of HAART, which may perhaps prejudice critical prediction. The
transience 2000 study scrutinized the foundations of death in HIV-infected adults at a national
level in France in the year 2000.
Methods: All French hospital wards known to be involved in the management of HIV infection
were asked to advise prospectively the deaths that croped up in 2000 amid HIV-infected young
people. The reason of demise was predictable by means of a standardized questionnaire.
Statistical analysis: We compared patient characteristics between causes of death using 2
and Kruskal-Wallis tests. We calculated exact 95% CI for the estimated completeness of death
ascertainment and national coverage of the investigation. All arithmetical psychotherapies were
executed using Statistical Analysis System software (SAS, version 8.2).
Results: A total of 185 wards participated in the survey and reported 64000 HIV-infected
patients with at least one get in touch with in 2000, and 964 demises. A feedback form was
accomplished for 924 deaths (96%).The underlying cause of death was an AIDS-defining illness
in 456 patients (47%), non-AIDS related in 477 patients (50%),and unknown in 31 patients (3%).
The distribution of underlying causes of death. Among AIDS-related deaths, the mean number of
AIDS-defining diseases reported at the time of death was 1.5 per case. Most frequent underlying
causes were non-Hodgkins lymphoma (23%) and cytomegalovirus disease (20%, Table 1).
Among patients whose HIV infection was diagnosed within 6 months of their decease, the the
majority recurrent AIDS-defining source was Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia Frequent non
AIDS-related causes of death included cancers not related to AIDS or HCV/HBV infection (103,
11%), HCV infection (90, 9%), cardiovascular disease (67, 7%), bacterial infections (57, 6%),
and suicide (38, 4%). The two most frequent types of cancers in this category were lung cancer
(41) and Hodgkins lymphoma (12). Other cancers included digestive (9), eye-nose-throat (6),
anal (6), central nervous system (4), myeloid leukaemia (4), pleural (3), prostate (3), breast (3),
hepatocarcinoma (2), skin (2), sarcoma (2), uterus (1), bladder (1), penis (1), multiple myeloma
(1), and unknown (3) Among the 90 HCV-related deaths and the 15 HBV-related fatality, 10 and
7 were belong to hepatocellular carcinoma, correspondingly. In the midst of the 67
cardiovascular-related \ deaths, 22 were related to coronary vein disease, 12 to a cerebrovascular
accident, 9 were belong to heart malfunction, 6 to pulmonary over tension situation, 4 to venous
thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, 4 to vascular syndrome or endocarditic, 2 to pericardial
infection, 1 to arrhythmia, 1 to aortic aneurysm, and 6 alleged devoid of more exactitude. In the
midst of the 57 non-AIDS bacterial infectivity described as the essential root of casualty, for the
most part recurrent form of questionnaires were pulmonary contaminations (26, including 12
Pneumococcus pneumoniae infections). In 10 patients (1%), antiretroviral treatment was
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considered the underlying cause of death leading to lactic acidosis (6), hepatitis (2), pancreatitis
(1), or an allergic reaction (1). In 47 supplementary belongings, antiretroviral cure was declares
as having contributed to the bereavement, with the subsequent fundamental root of fatality:
AIDS (23), HCV (8), cardiovascular (7), cancer (2), infection (2), nephropathy (2), accident (1),
overindulge (1), and suicide (1). Overall 7% of demises were associated to misfortune,
overindulge, or deaths.
Conclusion: Enhanced tactics for HIV uncovering before AIDS crucial impediments crop up
are required in era of HAART. The deterrence of non-AIDS related melanomas, in particular
lung malignancy, his managing of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, and of viral hepatitis are also
imperative precedence.

Article#7: Rates of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV infection

before and after AIDS diagnosis.
Objective: To explain the occurrence of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV illness
before and after the happening of AIDS, and to scrutinize the involvement of malignancy
jeopardy with impervious deficiency.
Design: followers study concerning nation-wide association of HIV, AIDS and tumor registry
data.
Methods: involvement of cancer risk with immune deficiency was examined by scrutinizing
cancer risks in four periods between HIV diagnosis, AIDS and death.
Results: By August 1999, 46% (8108) of people reported with HIV, and 100% of people with
AIDS, had a name code, date of birth and sex recorded and was therefore eligible for linkage
with the cancer registry. In total, 1355 cancers, including 196 non-AIDS defining cancers were
registered in 13067 people with HIV or AIDS for AIDS-defining cancers have been presented
elsewhere. SIRs in people with HIV and/or AIDS. There were significantly increased rates of
several cancers, including cancer of lip (10 cases, nine of which were squamous cell carcinoma),
anus (10 cases, eight of disease (15 cases, of which six were of mixed cellularity, three
lymphocyte depleted, one nodular sclerosis and five were not specified), myeloma, and
leukaemia (13 cases including a variety of subtypes with no more than three of each subtype).
SIRs were not significantly cell, four were squamous cell, and three were adeno carcinoma) and
cancer of the testis (10 cases, of which seven were seminoma). Rates of colon cancer were
significantly decreased (three cases). Overall, 37% of personyears were in period 1 (least
immune deficient), 46% in period 2, 9.0% % in period 3, and 7.4% in period 4 (most immune
deficient). In period 1, rates were significantly increased only for cancer of the anus, liver and
testis (first column of Incidence rates of most cancers were increased in period 3 (the period 6
months either side of AIDS). Of the cancers that occurred at increased rates overall, there were
significant increasing trends in cancer rates across the four periods for connective tissue cancer,
Hodgkins disease and multiple myeloma. If the period including the 6 months around AIDS was
excluded, a significantly increasing trend was only seen for connective tissue cancer.
Conclusions: People with HIV with placid impervious insufficiency former to AIDS were at
augmented menace of anal cancer, but this may echo other peril factors. Other cancers transpire
solitary afterward in the course of HIV contamination. This is comforting substantiation that
people with HIV who are only placidly untouchable scarce may not be at amplified risk of non10 | P a g e

AIDS-defining cancers, but superior studies with elongated periods of follow-up are needed to
authenticate this.

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