Cancer has been linked to HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. The unusually frequent occurrence of Kaposi sarcoma (KS) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in 1981 was a sentinel observation leading to the inclusion of KS in the first AIDS case definition.1,2 More than three decades later, major research investments have led to striking advances in understanding HIV pathogenesis, with antiretroviral therapy (ART) reducing AIDS complications and allowing HIV-infected individuals to experience life expectancy approaching that of persons without HIV.3,4
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