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International News AIDS Amplifies Cancer Cases in UgandaApril 13, 2004 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information! The Uganda Cancer Institute has recorded more than 3,200 cancer patients annually in the past two years -- treble the approximately 1,000 patients in the past -- and over 70 percent of them have AIDS-related cancers including Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomas, said Mulago Hospital Director Dr. Lawrence Kaggwa, the Ugandan newspaper New Vision reported Monday. "The underlying deficiency in someone with HIV exposes the patient to variety of opportunistic infections especially Kaposi sarcoma," said another expert, the institute's Dr. J. Orem. Xinhua News Agency 04.12.04 A note from TheBody.com: Since this article was written, the HIV pandemic has changed, as has our understanding of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
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