We cannot escape the realities of biology. Just as children rescued from leukemia and lymphoma live to grow into adults who must confront the adverse effects of their curative treatment, people rescued from AIDS by HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) are showing a substantially increased risk of cancers other than the "AIDS-defining" malignancies designated by the Centers for Disease Control in the 1980s: Kaposi sarcoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL),...
OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The INTEGRIS Cancer Institute of Oklahoma and the ProCure Proton Therapy Center announce a breakthrough treatment approach for anal canal cancer. For the first time in the United States proton therapy is now being used to treat this type of cancer.
“In the past, patients with gastrointestinal cancers, specifically those in the pelvis, have rarely had proton therapy as an option because the...
An international team of researchers has found that HPV infection heightens the risk of developing certain skin cancers and is worsened if people are taking immunosuppression drugs.
During the study, they found that people with several types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were more than one and a half times as likely to develop certain skin cancers compared to people with no HPVs.
By Darryl Fears
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 20, 2010; 6:34 PM
When science turned AIDS several years ago from a fatal disease to a chronic illness that often can be managed with drugs, patients and doctors breathed a sigh of relief.
Now they have a new worry.
As people live longer with the virus, they are becoming far more likely than the rest of the population to develop cancers that were not previously associated with AIDS,...
One of the HPV vaccines available in Canada has now been approved for use by boys and men.
Merck announced Tuesday that Health Canada has approved its vaccine Gardasil for use in boys and men aged nine through 26.
The vaccine is designed to prevent infection from the HPV strains that can cause genital warts (types 6 and 11). It can also protect against HPV types 16 and 18 which, when sexually transmitted...
