A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?

Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have a higher prevalence of colonic neoplasms than the general population. In these patients, tumors develop at an earlier age, are diagnosed at more advanced stages, and have a dismal prognosis. Current guidelines recommend initiating colon...

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Autores principales: Aziz, Ahmed Ali, Aziz, Muhammad Ali, Rashid, Muhammad Humayoun, Omar, Nosheen, Shah, Rehan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10482359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37680434
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43085
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author Aziz, Ahmed Ali
Aziz, Muhammad Ali
Rashid, Muhammad Humayoun
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Shah, Rehan
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description Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have a higher prevalence of colonic neoplasms than the general population. In these patients, tumors develop at an earlier age, are diagnosed at more advanced stages, and have a dismal prognosis. Current guidelines recommend initiating colon cancer screening in HIV patients at the age of 45 which is consistent with screening age in the general population. We present a rare case of colon cancer diagnosed in an HIV-infected patient at a young age of only 34 years. Therefore, we recommend early screening for colon cancer in HIV patients than the general population.
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spelling pubmed-104823592023-09-07 A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients? Aziz, Ahmed Ali Aziz, Muhammad Ali Rashid, Muhammad Humayoun Omar, Nosheen Shah, Rehan Cureus Internal Medicine Patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have a higher prevalence of colonic neoplasms than the general population. In these patients, tumors develop at an earlier age, are diagnosed at more advanced stages, and have a dismal prognosis. Current guidelines recommend initiating colon cancer screening in HIV patients at the age of 45 which is consistent with screening age in the general population. We present a rare case of colon cancer diagnosed in an HIV-infected patient at a young age of only 34 years. Therefore, we recommend early screening for colon cancer in HIV patients than the general population. Cureus 2023-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10482359/ /pubmed/37680434 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43085 Text en Copyright © 2023, Aziz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Aziz, Ahmed Ali
Aziz, Muhammad Ali
Rashid, Muhammad Humayoun
Omar, Nosheen
Shah, Rehan
A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title_full A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title_short A Rare Case of Colon Cancer in a Young Patient With HIV Infection: Is it Time for New Colon Cancer Screening Guidelines for HIV Patients?
title_sort rare case of colon cancer in a young patient with hiv infection: is it time for new colon cancer screening guidelines for hiv patients?
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10482359/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37680434
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43085
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