The study, published in Gastroenterology, the journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, shows people with AIDS are also at increased risk for developing non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
In the study, researchers analyzed data from the HIV/AIDS Cancer Match Study, which links data for 16 U.S. population-based HIV and AIDS and cancer registries.
“People diagnosed with AIDS are living longer due to improved therapies. However, they remain at increased risk of developing a number of different cancers,” said E. Christina Persson, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute and lead author of the study, in the release. “An elevated risk of esophageal and stomach cancers had been observed before, but we were able to look at risk for subtypes of these malignancies.”
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