Hjalgrim H, Frisch M, Melbye M. Incidence rates of classical Kaposi's sarcoma and multiple myeloma do not correlate.
Br J Cancer 1998;
78:419-20. [PMID:
9703293 PMCID:
PMC2063027 DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1998.509]
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Abstract
We compared population-based incidence rates for classical Kaposi's sarcoma and multiple myeloma. Neither for men (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) = 0.01, P = 0.97, 13 pairs) nor for women (r = 0.24, P = 0.42, 13 pairs) did the incidences of the two conditions correlate. This absence of correlation does not support the hypothesis that Kaposi's sarcoma and multiple myeloma share a common aetiology, such as HHV-8.
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