Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Lesley S Park

Publications

• Research Article
  Cancer Incidence in HIV-Infected Versus Uninfected Veterans: Comparison of Cancer Registry and ICD-9 Code Diagnoses
  Author(s): Lesley S Park, Janet P Tate, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, David Rimland, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Cynthia Gibert, Sheldon T Brown, Michael J Kelley, Amy C Justice and Robert DubrowLesley S Park, Janet P Tate, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, David Rimland, Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Cynthia Gibert, Sheldon T Brown, Michael J Kelley, Amy C Justice and Robert Dubrow
  
  Background: Given the growing interest in the cancer burden in persons living with HIV/AIDS, we examined the validity of data sources for cancer diagnoses (cancer registry versus International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision [ICD-9 codes]) and compared the association between HIV status and cancer risk using each data source in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS), a prospective cohort of HIV-infected and uninfected veterans from 1996 to 2008. Methods: We reviewed charts to confirm potential incident cancers at four VACS sites. In the entire cohort, we calculated cancer-type-specific age-, sex-, race/ethnicity-, and calendar-period-standardized incidence rates and incidence rate ratios (IRR) (HIV-infected versus uninfected). We calculated standardized incidence ratios (SIR) to compare VACS and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results rates. Results:.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-6113.1000318

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