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AIDS related neoplasms in Genoa, Italy

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The study defines the epidemiological characteristics of HIV-infection in the population of Genoa and estimates the entity of AIDS-cancer association. The cohort includes 317 subjects resident in the Municipality of Genoa, aged above 14 years and notified prior to 31 December 1991 and/or dead from AIDS in the period 1988–1991. From 1984 to 1991, 44 cases of tumour were recorded. The comparison between the rate ratios found in the AIDS patients' cohort and in the general population of Genoa strengthen the significant association highlighted in literature regarding overall cancer, 26.7 (p<0.05), and in particular, Kaposi's sarcoma, 3239.4 (p<0.05); non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, 84.8 (p<0.05); Hodgkin's lymphomas, 20.6 (p<0.05). Moreover, a significant increase in the risk of testicular seminoma, 61.5 (p<0.05) and lung cancer, 18.0 (p<0.05) is confirmed.

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  1. OERMI (Osservatorio Epidemiologico Regionale Malattie Infective), Istituto di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva dell'Università, Genova

    Giovanni Gabutti, Maria-Grazia De Rosa & Pietro Crovari

  2. Istituto di Oncologia Clinica e Sperimentale dell' Università, Genova

    Marina Vercelli

  3. Registro Tumori Ligure, Italy

    Marina Vercelli, Maria-Antonietta Orengo, Claudia Casella & Cinzia Orlandini

  4. Registro Mortalità Regione Liguria c/o Servizio Registro Tumori, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova

    Marina Vercelli & Elsa Garrone

  5. Divisione Malattie Infettive, Ospedale Galliera, Genova

    Nicolò Piersantelli & Augusta Torresin

  6. Divisione Malattie Infettive, Ospedale San Martino, Genova, Italy

    Fortunato Rizzo & Norberto Morandi

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Gabutti, G., Vercelli, M., De Rosa, MG. et al. AIDS related neoplasms in Genoa, Italy. Eur J Epidemiol 11, 609–614 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01720292

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