AIDS-related lymphoma.
OBJECTIVE
To review the epidemiology, pathology, clinical features, prognostic factors, and treatment approaches of patients with AIDS-related lymphoma.


METHODS
Research studies and review articles.


CONCLUSIONS
Aggressive B-cell lymphoma has become one of the more common of the initial AIDS-defining illnesses in the United States. Median survival of affected patients has improved considerably with the use of highly active anti-retroviral therapy directed against human immunodeficiency virus, along with multi-agent chemotherapy, and outcome of such patients now approaches that of human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients with aggressive lymphoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Oncology nurses must be knowledgeable of AIDS-related lymphoma to provide supportive care to this patient population.
Levine
Alexandra M
AM
Division of Hematology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA. alevine@usc.edu
D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D023241:Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D016483:Lymphoma, AIDS-Related / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D012008:Recurrence; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology