Single-institutional experience of clinicopathological analysis and treatment for lung cancer patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Molecular and Clinical Oncology
Satoshi TakahashiAkihiko Gemma

Abstract

The advent of antiretroviral therapy has changed the disease spectrum constitution among patients living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), while the incidence of death due to non-AIDS-defining cancers, particularly lung cancer, continues to increase in the USA and Europe. However, the availability of detailed reports of the clinical characteristics of lung cancer among Asian populations is limited. The present study retrospectively analyzed the clinical characteristics, treatment regimens and outcomes of lung cancer patients with HIV who were treated in a single institution between 1988 and 2013. Of the 20 lung cancer patients living with HIV included in this study, 90% were diagnosed since 1996 in the post-antiretroviral era. The median CD4(+) cell count was 373.5/µl, whereas 65% of the patients were diagnosed with adenocarcinoma and 30% with squamous cell carcinoma. Epidermal growth factor receptor mutations were detected in 3 (27%) of the 11 specimens for which data were available, of which 65% had advanced-stage disease. Of the 20 patients, 9 underwent surgery, 6 received radiotherapy and 5 received chemotherapy as a first-line treatment. Treatment was generally well-tolerated. The median survival period was 35.8 mon...Continue Reading

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