Causes And Risk Factors Of Kaposi's Sarcoma

Gender

Kaposi's sarcoma tends to be more prevalent in men than in women, and among the male population, Kaposi's sarcoma is most common among homosexual men. When this condition was a more prevalent issue, men who tested negative for the human immunodeficiency virus tended to have far less serious cases. Those with classical Kaposi's sarcoma did, however, have more serious cases. These men tended to age somewhere in their fifties and sixties and were Mediterranean in ethnic origin. Kaposi's sarcoma does occur in women but to a much less degree, and many of these women are also infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.

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