Management of AIDS-Defining Cancers
Summary
- KS treatment is individualized according to prognosis and the goal of therapy
- Indications for systemic chemotherapy include widespread skin involvement, extensive oral KS, marked symptomatic edema, rapidly progressive disease, symptomatic visceral KS, and KS flare Local Therapy
- Localized KS lesions may be managed by surgery, intralesional chemotherapy,[Boudreaux 1993; Brambilla 2010] external beam radiation (Management Guidelines),[BHIVA HIV Cancer; Le Bourgeois 1994; Kigula-Mugambe 2005; Kirova 1998; Swift 1996; Gressen 1999] and alitretinoin topical gel (9-cis-retinoic acid) (Management Guidelines)[FDA Alitretinoin; NCCN KS]
- Liposomal Anthracyclines
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Keywords: Cancer