Concurrent chemoradiotherapy with 5-fluorouracil and mitomycin-C for invasive anal carcinoma in HIV-positive patients receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy versus non-HIV patients.

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e14590-e14590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G. Rubinstein ◽  
Shylandra B. Sreenivasappa ◽  
Shweta Gupta ◽  
Shivi Jain ◽  
Shinoj Pattali ◽  
...  

e14590 Background: In the non-HIV population, radiotherapy (RT), fluorouracil (5FU) with mitomycin (MMC) has become the standard in the non-metastatic setting for anal carcinomas (AC). To date, most studies with AC in HIV patients (pts) are small case series where multiple chemoradiation (CRT) regimens were used and analyzed as one cohort. In addition, little data exists on the inner city HIV population. Cook County Hospital (CCH) is the largest health provider for HIV pts in Chicago and together with its outpatient clinic, the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center (CC) 5,500 HIV+ pts are treated per year. The County Hospital (CCH) AIDS Malignancy Project (CHAMP Study) is a retrospective study of all HIV cancer pts treated for the past 14 years. Methods: We identified all HIV+ pts with invasive AC in CHAMP cohort. We analyzed HIV characteristics, overall survival (OS), PFS and pt demographics and compared it to a HIV- cohort from the same institution. All AC treated without MMC/5FU/RT were excluded. Statistics: Time to local recurrence (TLR), time to distant metastasis (TDM), and OS data was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier analysis and a Cox Proportional Hazards model. Results: 35 HIV + and 52 HIV - pts were included. Of the HIV+ vs. HIV- pts, 89 vs. 52% were male, 82 vs. 48% were AA and the average age in HIV+ vs. HIV- was 44 vs. 52 yrs. 45 % of the HIV pts presented with stage IIIA or IIIB disease vs. 46% in HIV- pts. 15 % HIV- pts had stage IV vs. 0% HIV +. The median survival in the HIV+ vs. HIV- was 34 vs. 39 mo (p>0.5). In the HIV- population, 22% survived 120 months, while no HIV pt survived over 90 months. TLR was 20 months shorter in the HIV+ arm (p<0.5). OS based on CD4 count did not differ. Conclusions: HIV associated AC is an AA male disease compared to HIV- pts in the inner city. More stage IV disease was reported in the HIV- cohort, but the median survival was equal with no long-term survivors in the HIV+ arm, possibly due to TLR, which was 20 months shorter, implying more aggressive disease. Both inner city groups present late but tolerate chemotherapy equally well. Education is needed in both HIV+ and HIV- pts to diagnose the cancers early so the OS can match the national average.

JAMA ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 103 (25) ◽  
pp. 1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
BERNARD FANTUS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-179
Author(s):  
KATHERINE K. CHRISTOFFEL

To the Editor.— I am writing with a correction concerning the recently published Letter to the Editor,1 challenging George Graham's commentary on poverty and malnutrition.2 Readers may be confused by mention of Dr Lattimer in Dr Graham's reply,3 as Dr Lattimer's name is not among the signers whose names appear under the challenge letter. This is because the names of seven signers were somehow omitted. The omitted signatures were those of Agnes D. Lattimer, MD, Myrtis Sullivan, MD, Kinfe Gebeyehu, MD, Parviz Danesh, MD, Naomi Kistin, MD (all from Cook County Hospital), Frank K. Thorp, MD, PhD (University of Chicao/Wyler Child's Hospital), Yolanda Hall, RD (Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center).


1955 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Y. T. Oester ◽  
A. A. Rodriquez ◽  
F. V. Curry

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