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What is the relationship between non-Hodgkin lymphoma and HIV?
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Dr Simon Easterbrook-Smith
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People who are HIV-positive are at increased risk of developing some cancers - the most common of these are high-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Kaposi's sarcoma and invasive cervical cancer.
This is thought to be a consequence of immune suppression (people who are HIV-positive may have abnormally low levels of CD4+ lymphocytes) rather than a direct effect of HIV.
There is a (fairly technical) discussion of this here: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/734593_1 .
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