Breast cancer in women with HIV/AIDS: Report of five cases with a review of the literature

Abstract

Our results do not support the recent reports suggesting that HIV infection is associated with poorly differentiated, aggressive disease with poor survival outcome. It remains unclear if breast carcinoma is directly linked to HIV infection.

Breast cancer among HIV-infected patients: The experience of the European Institute of Oncology

“…We read with interest the recent article by Oluwole et al [1] in which 305 patients with breast cancer treated in Harlem Hospital Center of New York from 1995 to 2000 are reported. Out of these 305 patients, the authors identified five women (1.6%) with HIV infection.…”

The effect of HIV infection on the surgical, chemo- and radiotherapy management of breast cancer. A prospective cohort study

“…[8] Other reports describe single cases of radiotherapy for breast cancer. [9,10] We hypothesised that HIV-infected patients with breast cancer would experience more short-term surgical complications and would be less likely to complete adjuvant or neoadjuvant cytostatic chemotherapy and radiotherapy courses than HIV non-infected patients. In this study we prospectively compared these parameters in two groups of patients with and without HIV infection.…”

Infecção VIH e Neoplasias Não Definidoras de SIDA: Experiência de um Centro

“…Se alguns estudos apontam para o desenvolvimento de uma doença tendencialmente mais agressiva, preococe e de mau prognós-tico, 35 outros não encontram qualquer diferença na forma de apresentação relativamente à população geral. 36 Neste estudo, os dois casos de neoplasia surgiram em doentes com 60 e 65 anos de idade, sem evidência de metastização e com boa resposta ao tratamento efectuado.…”