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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Oncol. 2015 Sep 8;43(1):173–188. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2015.09.011

Table 1.

Common Malignancies in People with HIV in the cART Era

Malignancy Standard Incidence Ratio* (HIV only / AIDS) Incidence in HIV (per 100,000 person-years) Estimated % of all cancers 2004–2007 in HIV/AIDS in US Viral Associations Smoking Association
AIDS-Defining Malignancies
 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  Systemic 10–15 / 30–60 >153¥ 25.9% EBV, KSHV
  Primary CNS lymphoma 250 / 1,020 27 3% EBV
 Kaposi sarcoma 1,300 / 3,640 110 18.5% KSHV Inverse relation
 Cervical cancer 2.9 / 5.3 47 2.4% HPV +
Non-AIDS Defining Malignancies
 Lung cancer 2.6 / 2.6 78 10% +
 Anal cancer 9.2 / 20 59 5.7% HPV +
 Classic Hodgkin lymphoma 5.6 / 14 33 4.4% EBV
 Oropharyngeal carcinoma 1.7 / 2.1 22 2.5% HPV +
 Hepatocellular carcinoma 2.7 / 3.3 32 2.3% HBV, HCV +
Non-melanomatous skin cancer
 Basal cell 1.8/2.5 1197
 Squamous cell 1.6/4.2 405 ? HPV (not established) +
*

Standard incidence ratio of patients in cohorts with 1) HIV but not AIDS and 2)

AIDS compared to the general United States population

Excluding non-melanomatous skin cancers

¥

153 Includes diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and Burkitt lymphoma, but not other rarer histologies