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Study finds high rates of cancer among older people living with HIV
Theo Smart, 2015-03-03 12:10:00
Older people living with HIV (over the age of 65) are at greatly increased risk of HIV-associated cancers, although many of the most commonly diagnosed cancers may be related more to ageing than to HIV, according to a study reported last week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015), in Seattle, USA.
“In our study population, over the course of five years, more than 10% of people with HIV had a cancer diagnosis. This is reflecting the contributions of both ageing and HIV to cancer risk in this population,” said Elizabeth Yanik from the US National Cancer Institute, who presented the study findings during a thematic discussion on cancers in young and older people living with HIV.
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