What is it about?
It should be kept in mind that these foci may also be associated with non-cancerous viral diseases in different disease incidents outside the primary focus in cancer patients. Hepatitis and HIV markers must be absolutely required before chemotheraphy.
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Why is it important?
The combination of cancer and HIV is a rare experience for oncologists.
Perspectives
The cervical and axillary lymph node involvements that could be missed by the tomographs made for staging could easily be detected with PET CT. These extraordinary manifestations made us think of different disease associations. Since there were few cases of stomach cancer with HIV, management of both diseases was an experience for us.
nilufer Bulut
American Society of Clinical Oncology
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This page is a summary of: Misleading 18FDG-PET/CT finding caused by chronic HIV infection in a patient with gastric carcinoma: a case report, International Journal of STD & AIDS, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0956462417724709.
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