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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2008 Feb 19;22(4):489–496. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f47082

Table 3.

Standardized incidence ratios for AIDS-defining and non-AIDS-defining cancers.

Cancer type Observed SIR (95% CI)
AIDS-defining cancer
 Kapos sarcoma 68 5600 (4400–7200)
 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 55 23.1 (17.8–30.0)
  Diffuse large B cell 26 30.8 (20.1–45.3)
  Primary CNS 21 2100 (1300–3200)
  Burkitt 2 26.3 (3.2–94.8)
  Other/unknown 6 4.8 (1.7–10.4)
 Cervical 15 16.6 (9.3–27.4)
Non-AIDS-defining cancer
 Head and neck 14 5.1 (2.8–8.6)
 Esophagus 3 5.2 (1.1–15.1)
 Stomach 2 2.4 (0.3–8.8)
 Small intestine 0 0 (0–11.1)
 Colon and rectum 2 0.5 (0.1–1.9)
 Anal 10 39.0 (18.7–71.7)
 Liver 13 16.5 (8.8–28.2)
 Pancreas 1 1.0 (0.03–5.7)
 Lung 29 5.5 (3.7–8.0)
 Bones and joints 0 0 (0–29.3)
 Soft tissue 0 0 (0–7.8)
 Melanoma 4 4.0 (1.1–10.1)
 Breast 3 0.6 (0.1–1.8)
 Uterus 0 0 (0–6.6)
 Ovary 0 0 (0–10.3)
 Vagina and vulva 0 0 (0–30.3)
 Prostate 5 0.6 (0.2–1.5)
 Testis 0 0 (0–5.5)
 Penis 1 24.2 (0.6–134.7)
 Bladder 4 4.1 (1.1–10.5)
 Kidney 5 2.9 (1.0–6.8)
 Brain 0 0 (0–5.2)
 Thyroid 0 0 (0–3.7)
 Hodgkin’s lymphoma 8 9.8 (4.2–19.2)
 Multiple myeloma 2 3.0 (0.4–10.7)
 Leukemia 0 0 (0–3.6)
 Mesothelioma 0 0 (0–0.1)
 Miscellaneous/other 3 4.0 (0.8–8.3)

SIR, standardized incidence ratio; CI, confidence interval.