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Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation and Risk of Cancer Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.


ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; PLWH) experience a high burden of cancer. It remains unknown which cancer types are reduced in PLWH with earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Methods

We evaluated AIDS-free, ART-naive PLWH during 1996-2014 from 22 cohorts participating in the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design. PLWH were followed from first observed CD4 of 350-500 cells/µL (baseline) until incident cancer, death, lost-to-follow-up, or December 2014. Outcomes included 6 cancer groups and 5 individual cancers that were confirmed by chart review or cancer registry linkage. We evaluated the effect of earlier (in the first 6 months after baseline) versus deferred ART initiation on cancer risk. Marginal structural models were used with inverse probability weighting to account for time-dependent confounding and informative right-censoring, with weights informed by subject's age, sex, cohort, baseline year, race/ethnicity, HIV transmission risk, smoking, viral hepatitis, CD4, and AIDS diagnoses.

Results

Protective results for earlier ART were found for any cancer (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 0.57; 95% confidence interval [CI], .37-.86), AIDS-defining cancers (HR 0.23; 95% CI, .11-.49), any virus-related cancer (HR 0.30; 95% CI, .16-.54), Kaposi sarcoma (HR 0.25; 95% CI, .10-.61), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (HR 0.22; 95% CI, .06-.73). By 15 years, there was also an observed reduced risk with earlier ART for virus-related NADCs (0.6% vs 2.3%; adjusted risk difference -1.6; 95% CI, -2.8, -.5).

Conclusions

Earlier ART initiation has potential to reduce the burden of virus-related cancers in PLWH but not non-AIDS-defining cancers (NADCs) without known or suspected viral etiology.

SUBMITTER: Silverberg MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8315132 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation and Risk of Cancer Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

Silverberg Michael J MJ   Leyden Wendy W   Hernández-Ramírez Raúl U RU   Qin Li L   Lin Haiqun H   Justice Amy C AC   Hessol Nancy A NA   Achenbach Chad J CJ   D'Souza Gypsyamber G   Engels Eric A EA   Althoff Keri N KN   Mayor Angel M AM   Sterling Timothy R TR   Kitahata Mari M MM   Bosch Ronald J RJ   Saag Michael S MS   Rabkin Charles S CS   Horberg Michael A MA   Gill M John MJ   Grover Surbhi S   Mathews W Christopher WC   Li Jun J   Crane Heidi M HM   Gange Stephen J SJ   Lau Bryan B   Moore Richard D RD   Dubrow Robert R   Neugebauer Romain S RS  

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20210601 11


<h4>Background</h4>Persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV; PLWH) experience a high burden of cancer. It remains unknown which cancer types are reduced in PLWH with earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART).<h4>Methods</h4>We evaluated AIDS-free, ART-naive PLWH during 1996-2014 from 22 cohorts participating in the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design. PLWH were followed from first observed CD4 of 350-500 cells/µL (baseline) until incident cancer,  ...[more]

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