Long-term survival of patients with apparent early-stage (FIGO I-II) epithelial ovarian cancer: a population-based study.

Background: Women with presumed early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) who have not received comprehensive surgical staging are at risk for recurrence. The aim of our study was to analyze the overall long term survival of EOC patients with a presumed early stage EOC.

Methods: A population-based cancer registry was used to identify patients with an early-stage EOC cancer diagnosed between 1989 and 1997.

Cancer risk in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study: associations with immunodeficiency, smoking, and highly active antiretroviral therapy.

Background: Persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased risk for several cancers, but the influences of behavioral risk factors, such as smoking and intravenous drug use, and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on cancer risk are not clear.

Methods: Patient records were linked between the Swiss HIV Cohort Study and Swiss cantonal cancer registries. Observed and expected numbers of incident cancers were assessed in 7304 persons infected with HIV followed for 28,836 person-years.