Of the many afflictions that descend upon AIDS patients, cancer is one of the most relentless. Doctors have long believed that various forms of malignancy arise indirectly because the AIDS virus, HIV, damages the immune system, making the body vulnerable to cancer-causing agents, whatever they may be. But that assumption could be wrong, at least in some cases. New evidence suggests % that HIV itself can be the trigger for cancer, directly causing cells to turn malignant.
This news comes from the University of California at San Francisco, where researchers studied AIDS patients with lymphoma, a cancer in which lymph cells...
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