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...matter of transferring the successful prevention methods from the U.S. and Europe to the developing world, however. The most common cancers outside our borders are caused by chronic infections with viruses - very different from the ones that afflict us. In Africa, for example, the three most common cancers are Kaposi's sarcoma (related to HIV infection) and liver and cervical cancer. In China, liver cancer is a huge problem. The good news is that while researchers are still working on an effective AIDS vaccine, they can vaccinate against the hepatitis B virus that causes liver cancer and the human papillomavirus...
...sooner did the report appear than the CDC began hearing from doctors in San Francisco and New York City, who were also seeing PCP in young homosexual men. And that was not all they were seeing. Many of the patients bore the purplish lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a rare skin cancer that in this country is usually found only in elderly men of Mediterranean extraction. They had other infections as well: Candida albicans, a fungus that cakes the mouth and throat, making it difficult and painful to speak or eat; herpes, not just the garden variety of sores...
...signaling-inhibitor drug that he helped develop, is being studied as a potential treatment for colorectal and lung cancers as well as aids-related Kaposi's Sarcoma. Ullrich's U3 will attempt to identify more communication molecules that can be targeted in the war against cancer...
There are many reasons young gay men are having unprotected sex, but I think the most pertinent is that we've never had to visit a friend in the hospital disfigured by Kaposi's sarcoma. Like many other gay men around my age (30), I have never known anyone who was ill with AIDS. The last time I was in the hospital was when I had my tonsils out. If I had been born 10 years earlier, I probably would know the names of the admitting nurses at New York City's St. Vincent's hospital...
...There are many reasons young gay men are having unprotected sex, but I think the most pertinent is that we've never had to visit a friend in the hospital disfigured by Kaposi's sarcoma. Like many other gay men around my age (30), I have never known anyone who was ill with AIDS. The last time I was in the hospital was when I had my tonsils out. If I had been born 10 years earlier, I probably would know the names of the admitting nurses at New York City's St. Vincent's hospital...