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ArticleInfectious agents and cancer2018

Letter to the editors regarding the paper: Prognostic factors in HIV-positive patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a Peruvian experience.

Mirtha P Rivera-Castillo, Diana Quispe-Pineda, Aldo J Lucchetti

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Article in Infectious agents and cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Mirtha P Rivera-Castillo1Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2 Alameda San Marcos Avenue, Chorrillos, 15067 Lima, Peru.ORCID 0000-0001-6014-1372
Diana Quispe-Pineda1Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2 Alameda San Marcos Avenue, Chorrillos, 15067 Lima, Peru.
Aldo J Lucchetti1Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, 2 Alameda San Marcos Avenue, Chorrillos, 15067 Lima, Peru.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) is a neoplasm associated with a group of malignancies called AIDs-Defining Malignancies (ADMs) in Human-Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -patients. Similar to the case of NHL in Latin America, particularly in Peru, the amount of research done on others ADMs is limited, especially in the case of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS). Prior investigations have talked about the great potential risk that represents this illness in latin american population, but topics as prognosis factors are yet to be well defined. In this letter, we address the importance of investigation in this area and include previously reported data that may enlighten the current national standpoint.

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AIDS-related Kaposi sarcomaHerpesvirus 8HIVNon-Hodgkin lymphoma

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PMID30555526
PMCPMC6288895

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