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Altekruse SF, Shiels MS, Modur SP, Land SR, Crothers KA, Kitahata MM, Thorne JE, Mathews WC, Fernández-Santos DM, Mayor AM, Gill JM, Horberg MA, Brooks JT, Moore RD, Silverberg MJ, Althoff KN, Engels EA. Cancer burden attributable to cigarette smoking among HIV-infected people in North America. AIDS (London, England). 2018 Feb 20;32(32). 513-521. NIHMSID: NIHMS924064.
Abstract
With combination-antiretroviral therapy, HIV-infected individuals live longer with an elevated burden of cancer. Given the high prevalence of smoking among HIV-infected populations, we examined the risk of incident cancers attributable to ever smoking cigarettes.