HIV patients, transplant recipients face 4x higher risk of HPV-linked cancers

Immunocompromised individuals face substantially elevated cancer mortality risk without preventive intervention and early detection.

A large Swedish retrospective study has placed a precise number on a long-held clinical suspicion: people living with HIV are more than four times as likely as the general population to develop cancers caused by human papillomavirus. Conducted at the Karolinska Institutet, the research also found elevated risk among solid organ transplant recipients, pointing to immunosuppression itself — not any single disease — as the common thread of vulnerability. At a moment when antiretroviral therapy has extended life expectancy for millions, the findings remind us that longevity without targeted preven

HIV patients, transplant recipients face 4x higher risk of HPV-linked cancers

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