Survival of south african women with breast cancer receiving anti-retroviral therapy for HIV

CONCLUSION: HIV infection was associated with worse overall and disease-free survival. HIV patients on ARTs had favourable overall and disease-free survival and with ARTs now being made accessible to all the outcome of women with HIV and breast cancer is expected to improve.PMID:34126376 | DOI:10.1016/j.breast.2021.05.014

Source: Breast - June 14, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Boitumelo Phakathi Sarah Nietz Herbert Cubasch Caroline Dickens Therese Dix-Peek Maureen Joffe Alfred I Neugut Judith Jacobson Raquel Duarte Paul Ruff Source Type: research