Table 1. AIDS diagnoses and linked cases by type of cancer in 19 Italian areas covered by Cancer Registries (CRs).

		Population		AIDS cases in CR areas	Linked casesa
CR	Complete period	(× 1000)	Cancer cases	(1982–2000)	KS	NHL	ICC	Other cancers
Alto Adige	1995–97	453	8107	196	4	2	0	3
Biella	1995–98	190	5782	253	3	6	1	1
Ferrara	1989–98	361	32 749	379	14	18	0	3
Florence	1985–97	1071	97 506	1050	100	58	1	29
FVG	1995–98	1186	40 002	379	6	4	0	1
Genoa	1985–96	679	76 746	1566	59	51	4	22
Latina	1983–98	527	21 630	337	5	9	1	1
Macerata	1991–97	358	12 773	112	6	2	1	0
Modena	1988–98	620	42 681	543	32	21	2	6
Naples	1996–98	525	4655	94	1	2	0	0
Parma	1982–98	391	27 745	308	17	13	0	7
Ragusa	1982–97	313	16 892	53	2	1	0	1
Romagna	1985–97	433	71 553	1485	63	64	2	22
Sassari	1992–97	468	11 883	302	7	12	0	3
Trento	1995–98	455	11 756	284	5	8	0	4
Turin	1985–98	963	85 751	1106	83	37	1	25
Umbria	1994–97	911	27 745	372	14	19	0	4
Varese	1982–97	789	54 400	1462	39	66	3	14
Veneto	1987–96	1890	1 21 347	1823	65	56	2	23
Total		12 583	6 98 380	12 104	525	449	18	170

KS=Kaposi's sarcoma; NHL=non-Hodgkin lymphoma; ICC=invasive cervical cancer; FVG=Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

^aCancers notified at CRs in people with AIDS, age 15–69 years, between 1985 and 1998 from 5 years prior to 3.5 years after an AIDS diagnosis.