How To Treat Lung Cancer And Hiv

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HIV Raises Risk of Lung Cancer 70 Percent in Large U.S. Veterans Group

Having HIV infection raised the risk of lung cancer 70% in a study of more than 110,000 U.S. veterans, even after researchers accounted for the impact of smoking. 1 By itself, smoking boosted lung cancer risk more than 6 times. This large study... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HIV as an Independent Risk Factor for Incident Lung Cancer

To determine whether the higher rate of lung cancer seen among HIV patients is due to biological effects of HIV, surveillance bias or excess smoking, the research team compared the incidence of lung cancer between patients with HIV and... Read more »

Delayed Diagnosis and Elevated Mortality in an Urban Population With HIV and Lung Cancer: Implications for Patient Care

Lung cancer is more common in HIV patients than in the general population, observed the authors. They conducted a retrospective analysis of lung cancer diagnoses in HIV patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1986 and 2004 to determine how... Read more »

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Using Cancer Drugs to Treat HIV

I have heard that there is a <a href="/content/news/art58192.html" target="_blank">study out of the University of Minnesota has used two Cancer Drugs</a>, decitabine and gemcitabine to effectively Force the Virus to...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

Thank you for sharing this info.The study utilizes 2 drugs that are used for other conditions (one for a precancerous blood disorder and the other for lung cancer) and combines them together. They take advantage of a feature of HIV that has been... Read more »

My daughter was treated for cervical cancer. Is she at greater risk for more cancers?

My daughter has been HIV positive for 7 years. In the summer she had a hysterectomy due to cervical cancer and one chemo treatment. They did not do any more chemo as the results after one treatment was almost devastational. Her CD4 count is...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

You ask a good question-- If someone had one cancer, are they at higher risk for more cancers?The answer to this is "maybe". Your daughter is at risk of having the cervical cancer recur. To minimize this risk, it is important that she... Read more »

HIV and lung cancer? How are they related?

When does HIV become AIDS? A relative of mine was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. The tumor was only the size of the tip of the little finger. Surgery was performed in which the middle lobe was removed. More was taken out because the surgeons...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Phil, you ask a lot of good questions about the relationship of HIV and lung cancer.Lung cancer does NOT qualify as an "AIDS-defining cancer". What this means is that if your relative is HIV positive and has lung cancer, then he does NOT... Read more »

Lung cancer and HIV

Some claims have been made in Australia that smoking in HIV+ people caused a much increased incidence of lung cancer above smokers without HIV. Do you know of any evidence of this? ...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

This is indeed correct. Lung cancer is both more prevalent and more aggressive in HIV-infected patients than in non-HIV-infected patients. In both HIV-infected and non-infected patients, lung cancer is predominantly a disease of smokers.Smoking... Read more »

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HIV / Cancer

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I have gone through two diagnoses within a few months of each other this year: HIV + and Lymphoma (Hodgkins Disease). I have been treated for the HIV since my dx in April, and doing fine so far. I am currently in chemotherapy tx as well for the HD... Read more »

Fighting HIV with cancer drugs

Posted by new2this2010, 3 Replies

Looks very very promising:

http://www.walb.com/global/story.asp?s=13054103 Read more »

Liver cancer, heart disease, counts, resistance

Posted by ScotCharles, 3 Replies

Generally, people develop resistance to Sustiva quickly since only one protein needs to mutate in the virus to render the drug ineffective. Monitor your counts closely and ask your doctor for a resistance panel if your counts change for the worse.... Read more »

Lung Infection

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I have read that lung infections are common in HIV+ people. Is this true as an ARS sypmtom

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