Fig. 1. The Kaposi sarcoma epidemic.
U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End-Results (SEER) data for San Franciscan men shows the emergence and magnitude of this epidemic cancer caused by transmissible KSHV infection during the AIDS epidemic (Howlader, N., Noone, A.M., Krapcho, M., Miller, D., Bishop, K., Kosary, C.L., Yu, M., Ruhl, J., Tatalovich, Z., Mariotto, A., Lewis, D.R., Chen, H.S., Feuer, E.J., Cronin, K.A. (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975–2014, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, https://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2014/).