Three year survival among patients with aids-related Kaposi sarcoma treated with chemotherapy and combination antiretroviral therapy at Moi teaching and referral hospital, Kenya

Three year survival among patients with aids-related Kaposi sarcoma treated with chemotherapy and combination antiretroviral therapy at Moi teaching and referral hospital, Kenya

Abstract Background AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma (AIDS-KS), a common malignancy in Kenya is associated with high morbidity and mortality. AIDS-KS is treated using bleomycin and vincristine (BV) plus or minus doxorubicin in most low resource settings, with response rates ranging from 24.8 to 87%. Surv...

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Main Authors: Naftali Busakhala, Gabriel Kigen, Paul Waako, R. Matthew Strother, Fredrick Chite, Patrick Loehrer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Infectious Agents and Cancer
Subjects:
AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma
Survival
Kenya
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13027-019-0242-9

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