INFECTIONS IN HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANCY

With the increasing prevalence of HIV, better combination treatment re gimens, and preventive therapy for opportunistic infections, physician s will be caring for an ever-increasing number of survivors with an ev er-dwindling immune function. Increasing this burden is the unfortunat e patient who also develops cancer concurrent with HIV infection. The combined risk factors of these diseases make a worst-case scenario in evaluation and treatment of infections. This article reviews AIDS-defi ning tumors and other malignancies, risk factors for infection, opport unistic infections, and therapy strategies.