#cancer

The cancer rate of those living with HIV in the U.S. is expected to decline in the next decade.

However, people with long-term suppression of HIV still have a higher risk of cancer compared with HIV-negative individuals.

In the United States, there are over 5.4 million cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer ever year.

An estimated 7,760 HIV-positive U.S. residents were diagnosed with cancer in 2010.

Observing Oral Cancer Awareness Month with information about oral cancer, including screening tips.

For example: Hep C cures have meant fewer people to treat and fewer transmissions to potential patients.

Highlights from HIV and hepatitis C research presented at the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston

Researchers urge clinicians to closely monitor their patients with HIV and chronic kidney disease.

This held true in a recent study among those who were on treatment for the virus.

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network has issued new guidelines for treating this population.

With a grant to follow their large study population through 2021, researchers hope to gain vital new insights about HIV infection.

Those with more advanced disease who didn’t get cancer care according to national guidelines had worse survival rates in a small study.