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Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Wednesday, Jan 30, 2013 01:30 PM EST HIV-positive patients have higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers
Tue, 29 Jan, 2013 11:00 PM PST
HIV-positive patients have a higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Specifically, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas occur more than twice as often among HIV-positive individuals compared to those who are HIV-negative.