Download Cancer Core - Yale School of Medicine

VACS Cancer Core
Robert Dubrow, PhD, MD
Founding Director
Lesley Park, PhD, MPH
Current Co-Director
Keith Sigel, MD, MPH
Current Co-Director
Members: Roger Bedimo, Sheldon Brown, Kristina Crothers, Cynthia
Gibert, Matthew Goetz, Maria Rodriguez-Barradas, Fatma Shebl,
Roxanne Wadia, Amy Justice
*Lesley used VACS data for her PhD Dissertation at Yale School of Public
Health completed Spring 2015 with funding from NCI (F31-CA180775)
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Recent VACS Cancer Core Highlights (2015-2016)
Peer Reviewed Publications
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Sigel K, et al. Immunologic and Infectious Risk Factors for Lung Cancer in HIV Infection. Lancet HIV
2016 (in press).
Park LS, et al. Viral suppression predicts lower AIDS- and non-AIDS-related cancer incidence in a
cohort of HIV-infected Veterans. (under consideration Annals of Internal Medicine).
Park LS, et al. Time trends in cancer incidence in persons living with HIV/AIDS in the antiretroviral
therapy era: 1997-2012. AIDS 2016.
Park LS, et al. Prevalence of non-HIV cancer risk factors in persons living with HIV/AIDS: a metaanalysis. AIDS 2016.
Althoff KN, et al. Comparison of risk and age at diagnosis of myocardial infarction, end-stage renal
disease, and non-AIDS-defining cancer in HIV-infected versus uninfected adults. Clin Infect Dis. 2015.
Lo Re V, et al. Predicting Risk of End-Stage Liver Disease in Antiretroviral-Treated Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Hepatitis C Virus-Coinfected Patients. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2015.
Consortium Collaborations
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Shiels M, et al. HIV Infection, immune suppression and age at diagnosis of non-AIDS-defining cancers.
Clin Infect Dis 2016 (in press). (NA-ACCORD)
Silverberg M, et al. Cumulative incidence of cancer among HIV-infected patients in North America. Ann
Intern Med 2015. (NA-ACCORD)
Conference Presentations
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CROI 2015, 2016, ICMAOI 2015, IWHOD 2015
New Grants
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National Cancer Institute R01 “Optimizing Lung Cancer Treatment in HIV” (Sigel) – Fundable Score
Yale Cancer Center Pilot Grant “COPD / Lung Cancer in HIV” (Akgun)
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VACS Cancer Core Highlights
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