Screening for precancers enabled earlier anal cancer diagnosis and better survival
Anal cancer is being diagnosed less often in gay and bisexual men with HIV in the Netherlands since 2013, but rates of diagnosis have hardly changed in other groups of people living with HIV over several decades, and Dutch HIV specialists say that screening and treatment for anal precancers should be offered to all people living with HIV.
Although the researchers attribute the decline in anal cancers in gay and bisexual men to earlier initiation of HIV treatment and less smoking rather than screening of gay and bisexual men with HIV, they note that screening enabled earlier diagnosis of anal cancer, resulting in better survival.
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Source : Aidsmap
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