Kaposi's Sarcoma: Illuminating Three Decades of U.S. Epidemiology

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Jul 10, B Jancin

KYOTO, Japan (EGMN) - The incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma among American men jumped more than 30-fold in the 1980s with the AIDS epidemic, peaked around 1991, and then declined rapidly in concert with the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy, according to a study involving 12,114 cases of KS and other forms of cutaneous soft-tissue sarcoma.This pattern held true for both white and black men. Whites led the rate increases during the 1980s; however, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) rates among black...

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