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Aids Epidemic and Neoplasms

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Etiology of Cancer in Man

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The first cases of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were in male homosexuals in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981. It is a new disease, and among the first 31 cases were 26 presenting with Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), a previously rare disease except in Central Africa. In 1872 Moritz K.Kaposi described the multi-centric pericyte or endothelial cell derived neoplasm, primarily in elderly men of Mediterranean origin, especially in Eastern or Central Europe. The original European cases and those that have been continued to be observed in Central Africa as well as the sporadic, rare cases in other parts of the world, respond well to treatment and usually disease is limited to the legs. The KS of AIDS rapidly spreads to other organs and is only temporarily responsive to therapy and is more like the virulent KS in children and young adults of Central Africa, as opposed to the more indolent form in older individuals there and in Eastern Europe. An important question, raised at the New York Academy of Science (NYAS) conference on AIDS in New York, November 14–17, 1983 is whether this virulent cancer in younger individuals of Central Africa is the virulent form of KS we are seeing as AIDS.

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Dawson, R.B. (1989). Aids Epidemic and Neoplasms. In: Levine, A.S. (eds) Etiology of Cancer in Man. Cancer Growth and Progression, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2532-8_19

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