Malignancy With Infectious Etiology

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Complications 3 More General Terms 4 References

Introduction

• cervical cancer

• human papilloma virus
• increased incidence in HIV infection
• risk proportional to number of sexual partners

• rectal cancer

• human papilloma virus
• increased incidence in HIV infection
• risk proportional to number of sexual partners

• Kaposi's sarcoma

• herpes virus 8
• primarily in younger HIV- infected homosexual men
• may be mistaken for bacillary angiomatosis ( bartonellosis)

• Hodgkin's lymphoma

• Epstein-Barr virus
• increased incidence in HIV infection

• oral hairy leukoplakia

• Epstein-Barr virus
• seen in HIV infection
• responds to antivirals active against herpes virus

• Burkitt's lymphoma

• Epstein-Barr virus t(8,14)-positive
• presents as oral & nasopharyngeal cancer in China & Southeast Asia & as post- transplantation lymphoma in immunosuppressed patients

• mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue ( MALT) lymphoma

• Helicobacter pylori
• usually involves GI tract, particularly stomach
• treat early disease with antibiotics for H pylori

• hepatocellular carcinoma

• hepatitis B & hepatitis C
• cirrhosis is the most important risk factor
• most common causes of cirrhosis
• chronic hepatitis B
• hepatitis C
• alcoholism
• schistosomyosis in South America

Complications

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• disease interaction(s) of cancer with Alzheimer's disease

More General Terms

• malignant neoplasm (cancer)

References

1. Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 14, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2006

malignancy with infectious etiology