Does HIV/AIDS change your management of locally advanced NSCLC?
If you are considering chemotherapy and radiation in the definitive, postoperative, or nodal failure scenarios, would you prefer sequential treatment, rather than concurrent to prevent severe toxicity? Does a low CD4 count (<200) affect your management?
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Radiation Oncology · Quillen VA Medical Center
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Those with negative viral load and CD-4 counts > 500 are just like HIV negative. Non compliant, Low CD4 and fluctuating viral loads at risk for toxicity of treatment. For CD4 < 200, I would not use concurrent therapy. Perhaps sequential. Maybe XRT alone. Many have not used anti-retrovirals consisten...
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