Authors
Pragna Patel, Debra L Hanson, Patrick S Sullivan, Richard M Novak, Anne C Moorman, Tony C Tong, Scott D Holmberg, John T Brooks
Publication date
2008/5/20
Journal
Annals of internal medicine
Volume
148
Issue
10
Pages
728-736
Publisher
American College of Physicians
Description
Background
Persons who are HIV-infected may be at higher risk for certain types of cancer than the general population.
Objective
To compare cancer incidence among HIV-infected persons with incidence in the general population from 1992 to 2003.
Design
Prospective observational cohort studies.
Setting
United States.
Patients
54 780 HIV-infected persons in the Adult and Adolescent Spectrum of HIV Disease Project (47 832 patients) and the HIV Outpatient Study (6948 patients), who contributed 157 819 person-years of follow-up from 1992 to 2003, and 334 802 121 records from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of 13 geographically defined, population-based, central cancer registries.
Measurements
Standardized …
Total citations
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