Aids-Related Malignancies – A New Approach

At the beginning of the HIV pandemic, most complicationsin AIDS subjects were due to infectiousdiseases. After the introduction of HAART in 1996,survival dramatically improved in such a way thatneoplastic diseases, mainly non-Hodgkin’s lymphomasand Kaposi’s sarcoma, are currently recognizedin more than 40% of patients at some pointin their lives. Besides these malignancies, the rateof other non-HIV related cancers have increased inrecent years. Herein, I summarize the most importantreports of malignancies at the 15th CROI, heldin Boston in February 2008. The changing incidenceof tumors in HIV patients has been acknowledgedby the latest recommendations of the SpanishGESIDA/PETHEMA group, focused on diagnosisand treatment of AIDS-related lymphomas.