1st National AIDS Malignancy Conference -- Online Summaries Available from April 28-30 Meeting

Extensive summaries of each day of the 1st National AIDS Malignancy Conference were written by teams of AIDS researchers and writers, who worked late into the night and made their reports available everywhere by the next day, through the World Wide Web. For U.S. medical professionals, continuing medical education credit is available online.

We have not had time to review this material, which consists of about 60 single-spaced pages including abstracts and tables, and became available as this issue went to press. Instead we will list the titles of the summary articles, so that those interested can obtain the summaries for themselves.

Note: The titles below are those of the summaries, not of the scientific papers presented at the conference. The titles and abstracts of the scientific presentations are also available at the World Wide Web address below. There are 172 abstracts online, and they are searchable by author or keyword, or can be scanned by title. Usually each of the summaries listed below reviews several related presentations.

Day 1

HHV8/KSHV and the Mysteries of KS Pathogenesis: Molecular Clues & Laboratory Conundrums.

Kaposi's Sarcoma -- Populations, Prognostic Features and Staging.

An Update on Anogenital Cancers in Men and Women and Malignancies in Children.

HHV8: Risk Factors and Route of Transmission.

Non-AIDS-Defining Cancers (NAD Cancers).

Pot-Luck Monday: A Mixed Bag of Epidemiology, Risk Factors and New NCI Initiatives in AIDS-Related Malignancies.

Day 2

HIV-Associated Tumors in Women and Children: Unusual Manifestations and Treatment Issues.

Kaposi's Sarcoma and HHV8.

AIDS-Related Lymphoma: Clinical Aspects.

AIDS-KS Pathogenesis: What Role Cytokines & Angiogenesis?

HHV8/KSHV: Host Range, Cellular Mimicry, Viral Oncogenes & Transactivation by TAT: The Mystery Unfolds.

AIDS-Associated Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Prognostic Factors, Survival Rates, and the Effect of Its Treatment on HIV.

Day 3

Clinical Aspects of AIDS-Related Lymphoma.

EBV: How the Kissing Virus Becomes Deadly.

AIDS-KS: Treatment Issues.

Treatment of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in HIV-Positive Children: Cause for Hope.