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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Oct;49(7):1109–1116. doi: 10.1086/605594

Table 1.

Characteristics of the 251 new cases of malignancy (ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort, 1998–2006)

Type of malignancy All (n = 251)


Non-AIDS-defining (n = 144) AIDS-defining (n = 107)
n n
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma - 61
Kaposi’s sarcoma - 39
Cervix carcinoma - 7

Bronchopulmonary 30 -
Skin malignancy (melanoma) 20 (4) -
Hodgkin’s disease 18 -
Hepatocarcinoma 16 -
Anal malignancy 14 -
Other hemopathies 6 -
Other solid tumors 40 -

Characteristics (continuous variables) Median IQR Median IQR

Age at malignancy diagnosis (years) 46.7 41.3–54.9 41.3 35.4–47.5
Duration of follow-up in the study period (years) 4.2 1.9–6.2 3.1 1.2–4.9
Time since first HIV positive test (years) 12.5 8.4–15.9 10.0 4.4–14.1
Nadir of plasma HIV RNA viral load during the study period (Log copies/ml) 1.7 1.7–2.7 3.0 1.8–4.0
Plasma HIV RNA viral load value at the time of malignancy diagnosis (Log copies/ml) 2.7 1.7–3.8 4.5 2.7–5.2
Duration of follow-up with plasma HIV RNA viral load ≤ 500 copies/ml (years) 1.5 0.3–3.5 0.0 0.0–0.7
Nadir of CD4+ cell count during the study period (cells/mm3) 186 93–296 129 21–281
CD4+ cell count value at the time of malignancy diagnosis (cells/mm3) 341 178–488 198 52–390
Duration of cART use during the study period (years) 2.9 0.7–5.3 1.6 0.5–3.5

Characteristics (categorical variables) % %

Gender (men) 83 78
Intra venous drug users 25 25

NOTE. IQR, Inter Quartile Range