HIV-positive patients with anal carcinoma have poorer treatment tolerance and outcome than HIV-negative patients
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 44 (10), 1496-1502
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02234605
Abstract
PURPOSE:Anal carcinoma is being found in HIV-positive patients with increasing frequency. Most patients are treated with combined chemotherapy and radiation. It was our impression that HIV-positive patients do not fare as well as HIV-negative patients in terms of both response to and toleranKeywords
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