Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that causes skin blotches and tumors. It has three skin stages, and the patch stage is one of them. The human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) causes Kaposi sarcoma. HHV8 may be ...

Kaposi sarcoma, a type of vascular cancer once only seen in elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean descent, is one of the two most common opportunistic diseases associated with AIDS. Its spread, ...

Overall risk for secondary cancers after Kaposi sarcoma decreased over time; however, acute lymphocytic leukemia and cancers of the tongue and penis became new common secondary cancers, according to ...

Dirk Dittmer, PhD, and colleagues have developed a model of Kaposi sarcoma could be key to the development of new drugs to treat the disease. Kaposi sarcoma is the most common cancer in people living ...

Author(s)Amy Paturel, M.S., M.P.H. A rare virus coupled with an ailing immune system can lead to Kaposi’s sarcoma. Restoring immune function can help fight it. Alex C.* was a teenager in 2007 when ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to Pomalyst (pomalidomide; Celgene) for the treatment of patients with Kaposi sarcoma. The Food and Drug ...

Kaposi sarcoma is a slow-growing vascular tumor localized to skin, but which spreads to internal viscera in 40% of immunosuppressed post-transplant patients. Kaposi sarcoma results from either primary ...

A recent report from San Francisco described nine patients with long-standing HIV infection who developed KS despite good immune function. HIV-associated Kaposi sarcoma (KS) typically occurs in ...

Researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, after decades of research efforts, have developed a mouse model of Kaposi sarcoma that could be key to the development of new drugs to treat ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to pomalidomide (Pomalyst, Bristol-Myers Squibb) for the treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi sarcoma that is resistant to highly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of Kaposi’s sarcoma and related death in East Africa has not improved in the last 5 years. In a ...

Researchers have developed a model of Kaposi sarcoma that could expedite the development of new drugs to treat the disease, which is the most common cancer in people living with HIV. Researchers at ...