“…17 Since then, a number of studies carried out either exclusively before the HAART era or both before and during the HAART era have suggested that lung cancer risk is greater among HIV-infected individuals compared to the general population (Table 1). 11,12,[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Though some of the largest studies included only patients with an AIDS-defining diagnosis 11,18,21,22 several cohort and registry linkage studies, which have included HIV-positive patients with and without AIDS, have also consistently demonstrated an increased risk of lung cancer. 19,23,27,[28][29][30]33 In a meta-analysis of seven reports of HIV-associated cancer risk and published between 2002 and 2006, 444,172 people with HIV/AIDS were identified, of whom 1,297 were diagnosed with lung cancer.…”