San Francisco doctors have reported a cluster among gay men of unusual cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, the cancer-like skin disease whose disfiguring purple lesions were a terrifying signature of a bygone ...

A 75-year-old African-American man presented with a history of progressively worsening, asymptomatic papules and plaques on his trunk and all extremities. He reported that the lesions initially began ...

Immunosuppression is thought to be important in the natural history of Kaposi's sarcoma, and the disease is 500 times more prevalent in patients who have received a solid-organ transplant than in the ...

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a low-grade vascular neoplasm mediated by the human herpesvirus-8. Only 1 clinical subtype, the endemic/African subtype, commonly affects the pediatric population. Although ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and related death in East Africa has not improved in the last 5 years. In a ...

Author(s)Amy Paturel, M.S., M.P.H. A rare virus coupled with an ailing immune system can lead to Kaposi’s sarcoma. Restoring immune function can help fight it. Alex C.* was a teenager in 2007 when ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco doctors have reported a cluster among gay men of unusual cases of Kaposi's sarcoma, the cancerlike skin disease whose disfiguring purple lesions were a terrifying ...

KAPOSI'S sarcoma, or "idiopathic multiple hemorrhagic sarcoma," was first described as a clinical entity by Kaposi in 1872. The disease is progressive, and it exhibits a wide range of clinical and ...

Paclitaxel Versus Doxorubicin as First-Line Single-Agent Chemotherapy for Metastatic Breast Cancer: A European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Randomized Study With Cross-Over ...

The benefits of HAART notwithstanding, KS has not disappeared as a clinical problem. Because HAART can induce tumor regression, and because appropriate HIV management generally requires administration ...

Malawi is facing a worrying rise in cases of Kaposi sarcoma, a form of cancer that mainly attacks people with weakened immune systems, health authorities have warned.Officials from the Ministry of ...