1st International AIDS Conference Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. - April 14-17, 1985

Int Conf AIDS. 1985 Apr 14-17;1:27 Abstract No. S8E

RJ Biggar, J Horm, JH Lubin, JJ Goedert, MH Greene, JF Fraumeni
Environmental Epidemiology Branch, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland.

Recent case reports have linked AIDS with some cancers other than Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program, we compared with morbidity odds ratio (OR) for selected cancer sties in pre-and post-AIDS periods. Among never-married 20-49 year old men, a surrogate group for homosexual men, an increase in the morbidity OR for KS between 1973-1980 and 1981-1982 was apparent in the San Francisco (SF) standard metropolitan statistical area (OR: 51.8; Confidence Interval (C1): 18.6-143.6) and other areas covered by the SEER program (OR: 18.6; CI: 2.2-154.5). In contrast, there were no significant increases in the morbidity OR for other cancers except for Burkitt-like lymphoma(BL) in the SF metropolitan area (OR: 9.1; CI:1.8-45.6). In SF Count (which includes the City of SF) there was a 2043-fold increase in the morbidity OR for KS and a 5-fold increase for BL, but no significant changes for other cancers between 1973-79 and 1982. This monitoring system should prove useful in determining whether reported associations between AIDS and cancers other than KS and BL are due to chance and in following future changes of cancer incidence in this subset of the population.

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