Risk for Non-AIDS-Defining and AIDS-Defining Cancer of Early Versus Delayed Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy : A Multinational Prospective Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) regardless of CD4 cell count reduces risk for AIDS and non-AIDS-related events in asymptomatic, HIV-positive persons and is the standard of care. However, most HIV-positive persons initiate ART when their CD4 count decreases below 500 × 109 cells/L. Consequences of delayed ART on risk for non-AIDS-defining and AIDS-defining cancer, one of the most common reasons for death in HIV, are unclear.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the long-term risk difference for cancer with the immediate ART strategy.

DESIGN: Multinational prospective cohort study.

SETTING: The D:A:D (Data collection on Adverse events of anti-HIV Drugs) study, which included HIV-positive persons from Europe, Australia, and the United States.

PARTICIPANTS: 8318 HIV-positive persons with at least 1 measurement each of CD4 cell count and viral load while ART-naive (study period, 2006 to 2016).

MEASUREMENTS: The parametric g-formula was used, with adjustment for baseline and time-dependent confounders (CD4 cell count and viral load), to assess the 10-year risk for non-AIDS-defining and AIDS-defining cancer of immediate versus deferred (at CD4 counts <350 and <500 × 109 cells/L) ART initiation strategies.

RESULTS: During 64 021 person-years of follow-up, 231 cases of non-AIDS-defining cancer and 272 of AIDS-defining cancer occurred among HIV-positive persons with a median age of 36 years (interquartile range, 29 to 43 years). With immediate ART, the 10-year risk for non-AIDS-defining cancer was 2.97% (95% CI, 2.37% to 3.50%) and that for AIDS-defining cancer was 2.50% (CI, 2.37% to 3.38%). Compared with immediate ART initiation, the 10-year absolute risk differences when deferring ART to CD4 counts less than 500 × 109 cells/L and less than 350 × 109 cells/L were 0.12 percentage point (CI, -0.01 to 0.26 percentage point) and 0.29 percentage point (CI, -0.03 to 0.73 percentage point), respectively, for non-AIDS-defining cancer and 0.32 percentage point (CI, 0.21 to 0.44 percentage point) and 1.00 percentage point (CI, 0.67 to 1.44 percentage points), respectively, for AIDS-defining cancer.

LIMITATION: Potential residual confounding due to observational study design.

CONCLUSION: In this young cohort, effects of immediate ART on 10-year risk for cancer were small, and further supportive data are needed for non-AIDS-defining cancer.

PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Oversight Committee.

Errataetall:

ErratumIn: Ann Intern Med. 2021 Aug;174(8):1195. - PMID 34399068

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:174

Enthalten in:

Annals of internal medicine - 174(2021), 6 vom: 24. Juni, Seite 768-776

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chammartin, Frédérique [VerfasserIn]
Lodi, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Logan, Roger [VerfasserIn]
Ryom, Lene [VerfasserIn]
Mocroft, Amanda [VerfasserIn]
Kirk, Ole [VerfasserIn]
d'Arminio Monforte, Antonella [VerfasserIn]
Reiss, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Phillips, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
El-Sadr, Wafaa [VerfasserIn]
Hatleberg, Camilla I [VerfasserIn]
Pradier, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Bonnet, Fabrice [VerfasserIn]
Law, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
De Wit, Stéphane [VerfasserIn]
Sabin, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Lundgren, Jens D [VerfasserIn]
Bucher, Heiner C [VerfasserIn]
D:A:D Study Group [VerfasserIn]

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Anti-HIV Agents
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 04.08.2021

Date Revised 12.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

ErratumIn: Ann Intern Med. 2021 Aug;174(8):1195. - PMID 34399068

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.7326/M20-5226

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32278235X