Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) changed the natural history of pediatric HIV infection. This review focuses on trends of HIV-associated cancers in childhood in the HAART era and analyses potential pathogenetic mechanisms. HAART reduced AIDS-defined-malignancies (ADM), but incidence of several non-ADM is increasing. HIV-associated immune activation and inflammation, promoting tumorigenesis, can only partially be reduced by HAART. In addition, HIV-infected children may undergo accelerated immune senescence that favors cancer development. How HAART affects this condition is an open question. Lastly, there is no evidence that prenatal exposure to HAART increases the risk of cancer in childhood, but long-term studies are needed. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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Univ Illinois, Coll Med Rockford, San Francisco, CA USA
San Francisco Gen Hosp, Dept Ophthalmol, San Francisco, CA 94110 USAUniv Calif San Francisco, Dept Ophthalmol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
Sorenson, Rebecca L.
Jeng, Bennie H.
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Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Ophthalmol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
Univ Calif San Francisco, Francis I Proctor Fdn, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
San Francisco Gen Hosp, Dept Ophthalmol, San Francisco, CA 94110 USAUniv Calif San Francisco, Dept Ophthalmol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA