Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy.
<h4>Background</h4>Cancer causes significant morbidity and mortality among HIV patients in the US due to extended life expectancy with access to effective antiretroviral therapy. Low, detectable HIV RNA has been studied as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, but its clinical impac...
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| author | Jennifer S Lee Stephen R Cole Chad J Achenbach Dirk P Dittmer David B Richardson William C Miller Christopher Mathews Keri N Althoff Richard D Moore Joseph J Eron Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) |
| author_facet | Jennifer S Lee Stephen R Cole Chad J Achenbach Dirk P Dittmer David B Richardson William C Miller Christopher Mathews Keri N Althoff Richard D Moore Joseph J Eron Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) |
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| description | <h4>Background</h4>Cancer causes significant morbidity and mortality among HIV patients in the US due to extended life expectancy with access to effective antiretroviral therapy. Low, detectable HIV RNA has been studied as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, but its clinical impact on cancer risk remains unclear. The objective of this study was to determine whether HIV RNA <1,000 copies/mL six months after starting therapy was associated with 10-year first cancer risk.<h4>Methods</h4>We followed 7,515 HIV therapy initiators from a US-based multicenter clinical cohort from 1998 to 2014. We used nonparametric multiple imputation to account for viral loads that fell below assay detection limits, and categorized viral loads six months after therapy initiation into four groups: <20, 20-199, 200-999, and >999 copies/mL. We calculated estimates of the cumulative incidence of cancer diagnosis, accounting for death as a competing event. Inverse probability of exposure and censoring weights were used to control for confounding and differential loss to follow up, respectively.<h4>Results</h4>Crude 10-year first cancer risk in the study sample was 7.03% (95% CI: 6.08%, 7.98%), with the highest risk observed among patients with viral loads between 200 and 999 copies/mL six months after ART initiation (10.7%). After controlling for baseline confounders, 10-year first cancer risk was 6.90% (95% CI: 5.69%, 8.12%), and was similar across viral load categories.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Overall risk of first cancer was not associated with incomplete viral suppression; however, cancer remains a significant threat to HIV patients after treatment initiation. As more HIV patients gain access to treatment in the current "treat all" era, occurrences of incomplete viral suppression will be observed more frequently in clinical practice, which supports continued study of the role of low-level HIV RNA on cancer development. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ca073d71e11448c8afa6d88713ba0c4f2025-08-20T02:46:01ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032018-01-01136e019766510.1371/journal.pone.0197665Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy.Jennifer S LeeStephen R ColeChad J AchenbachDirk P DittmerDavid B RichardsonWilliam C MillerChristopher MathewsKeri N AlthoffRichard D MooreJoseph J EronCenter for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS)<h4>Background</h4>Cancer causes significant morbidity and mortality among HIV patients in the US due to extended life expectancy with access to effective antiretroviral therapy. Low, detectable HIV RNA has been studied as a risk factor for adverse health outcomes, but its clinical impact on cancer risk remains unclear. The objective of this study was to determine whether HIV RNA <1,000 copies/mL six months after starting therapy was associated with 10-year first cancer risk.<h4>Methods</h4>We followed 7,515 HIV therapy initiators from a US-based multicenter clinical cohort from 1998 to 2014. We used nonparametric multiple imputation to account for viral loads that fell below assay detection limits, and categorized viral loads six months after therapy initiation into four groups: <20, 20-199, 200-999, and >999 copies/mL. We calculated estimates of the cumulative incidence of cancer diagnosis, accounting for death as a competing event. Inverse probability of exposure and censoring weights were used to control for confounding and differential loss to follow up, respectively.<h4>Results</h4>Crude 10-year first cancer risk in the study sample was 7.03% (95% CI: 6.08%, 7.98%), with the highest risk observed among patients with viral loads between 200 and 999 copies/mL six months after ART initiation (10.7%). After controlling for baseline confounders, 10-year first cancer risk was 6.90% (95% CI: 5.69%, 8.12%), and was similar across viral load categories.<h4>Conclusion</h4>Overall risk of first cancer was not associated with incomplete viral suppression; however, cancer remains a significant threat to HIV patients after treatment initiation. As more HIV patients gain access to treatment in the current "treat all" era, occurrences of incomplete viral suppression will be observed more frequently in clinical practice, which supports continued study of the role of low-level HIV RNA on cancer development.https://storage.googleapis.com/plos-corpus-prod/10.1371/journal.pone.0197665/1/pone.0197665.pdf?X-Goog-Algorithm=GOOG4-RSA-SHA256&X-Goog-Credential=wombat-sa%40plos-prod.iam.gserviceaccount.com%2F20210223%2Fauto%2Fstorage%2Fgoog4_request&X-Goog-Date=20210223T095257Z&X-Goog-Expires=3600&X-Goog-SignedHeaders=host&X-Goog-Signature=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 |
| spellingShingle | Jennifer S Lee Stephen R Cole Chad J Achenbach Dirk P Dittmer David B Richardson William C Miller Christopher Mathews Keri N Althoff Richard D Moore Joseph J Eron Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. PLoS ONE |
| title | Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. |
| title_full | Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. |
| title_fullStr | Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. |
| title_short | Cancer risk in HIV patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. |
| title_sort | cancer risk in hiv patients with incomplete viral suppression after initiation of antiretroviral therapy |
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