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. 2015 Feb 6;107(4):dju503. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju503

Table 2.

Estimated total and excess cancer cases among people living with HIV in the United States in 2010, by cancer type

Cancer type Estimated cases* Percentage excess or deficit (95% CI) Percentage of total excess (95% CI)
Total No. (95% CI) Expected No. Excess or deficit No. (95% CI)
AIDS-defining cancers 2640 (2400 to 2890) 230 2410 (2170 to 2660) 91 (90 to 92) 54 (49 to 58)
 Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma§ 1650 (1470 to 1840) 200 1440 (1270 to 1630) 88 (86 to 89) 32 (28 to 36)
 Kaposi’s sarcoma 910 (780 to 1060) 2 910 (780 to 1060) 100 (100 to 100) 20 (18 to 23)
 Cervix 80 (50 to 120) 30 50 (20 to 90) 66 (46 to 78) 1 (0 to 2)
Non–AIDS defining cancers 5130 (4780 to 5580) 3620 1510 (1170 to 1960) 29 (24 to 35) 46 (42 to 51)
 Lung 840 (710 to 1000) 400 440 (300 to 600) 52 (43 to 60) 10 (7 to 13)
 Anus 760 (630 to 930) 20 740 (610 to 910) 97 (97 to 98) 17 (14 to 19)
 Prostate 570 (450 to 720) 970 -390 (-520 to -250) -41 (-53 to -26) 0 (0 to 0)
 Liver 390 (300 to 500) 110 280 (200 to 390) 73 (65 to 79) 6 (4 to 9)
 Colorectum 360 (270 to 470) 380 -20 (-110 to 90) -6 (-28 to 20) 0 (0 to 2)
 Hodgkin’s lymphoma 320 (240 to 420) 30 290 (210 to 390) 91 (88 to 93) 6 (5 to 9)
 Oral cavity and  pharynx 280 (210 to 380) 140 140 (70 to 240) 51 (34 to 64) 3 (2 to 5)
 Female breast 180 (120 to 260) 300 -130 (-190 to -40) -42 (-61 to -14) 0 (0 to 0)
 Miscellaneous 1430 (1270 to 1620) 1270 160 (-9 to 350) 11 (-1 to 22) 4 (0 to 8)
All cancers (total) 7760 (7330 to 8320) 3850 3920 (3480 to 4470) || 50 (48 to 54) 100

* Cancer cases are rounded to the nearest ten and may not always sum exactly.

† The percentage excess is calculated as excess/total; the percentage deficit is calculated as deficit/expected (see Methods).

‡ This calculation is restricted to the cancers that were present in excess. Deficit cancers were therefore set equal to zero, giving a denominator of 4460 cancer cases for the point estimates. For the groups of AIDS-defining and non–AIDS defining cancers, percentages are calculated as the sum of the percentages for individual cancer sites.

§ Only certain subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) are AIDS defining, but we grouped all NHLs together, as most cases among HIV-infected people are the AIDS-defining subtypes (40).

|| The excess displayed for all cancers is the net excess. Disregarding cancers occurring in deficit, the total excess is 4460 cancers.