Smoking linked to lung cancer in women with HIV

Women who become infected with HIV, or at risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, it seems more likely to develop lung cancer than women in the general population, possibly because it is much more likely to smoke cigarettes study findings suggest.

People with HIV have a much higher risk for many types of cancer; in addition, it is unclear whether HIV infection also plays a role in the development of lung cancer, Dr. Alexandra m. Levine, city of hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., and colleagues to note in the journal of Clinical Oncology.

In order to investigate, compared the cancers of the lung 2,651 infected with HIV and 898 endangered, but not yet infected women, who was 35 years old on average with lung cancer cases occur between similarly estimates among women in the population.

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