Cancer grows faster and more aggressively in patients with HIV, stated study. AIDS patients suffer higher rates of cancer because they have fewer T-cells in their bodies to fight disease.

‘AIDS patients suffer higher rates of cancer because they have fewer T-cells in their bodies to fight disease.’

Compared with the general population, people infected with HIV are: 




500 times more likely to be diagnosed with Kaposi sarcoma;
12 times more likely to be diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma;
and, among women, three times more likely to be diagnosed with cervical cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute.
"There are big implications here," Jin said. In addition to being linked to an increased risk of cancer, HIV-infected patients are more likely to die of other type of cancer, including lung cancer and cancer in the head and neck, than uninfected people with the same cancers.
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Source-Eurekalert