Inaugural Guidelines for Patients With HIV Aim to Expand Therapy Options

May 12, 2018 – The HIV status of a patient who is living with the infection and has been diagnosed with cancer may be a component of a diagnostic workup but should not be the sole determining factor in making decisions about treatment, according to the first set of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for this population. The recommendations reflect that there are worse overall and cancer-specific survival outcomes seen in the HIV- … (leggi tutto)