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Data Indicate Cancer in Gay Men
Is Transmitted Apart From AIDS
By GINA KOLATAA cancer that has been thought to be
a direct result of AIDS virus infections
may actually be an independent sex-
ually transmitted disease, researchers
from the Centers for Disease Control
Good Theory, Bad Data
Nearly 400 years after Kepler
theorized that planets revolve
around the sun, a scholar has
found that he fabricated data.
Science Times, page B5.say. in a separate report, a researcher
in New York City said he had seen at
least eight gay men who have the can-
cer but not AIDS.
The reports appear in current issue
The Lancet, a British medicaf journal.
For years AIDS researchers have won-
dered whether the cancer, Kaposi's
sarcoma, occurred when the immune
system was destroyed by the AIDS
virus, as was widely assumed, or
whether it was caused by some other
process or organism. The researchers
at the Federal centers in Atlanta said
that accumulating data had led them to
conclude that "Kaposi's sarcoma in
persons with AIDS may be caused by
an as yet unidentified infectious agent
transmitted mainly by sexual con-
tact."
But they noted that the evidence is in-
direct, and that they have not identified
the agent, if it exists.
Striking Differences Reported
The Federal researchers cited strik-
ing differences in the incidence of the
cancer in AIDS patients from different
risk groups. About 15 percent of AIDS
patients in the United States have de-
veloped the cancer. Among gay men,
the figure is 21 percent; among in-
travenous drug users, less then 5 per-
cent, and among hemophiliacs, about 1
percent.
Kaposi's sarcoma (KAH-puh-zees
sar-COH-ma) was first described in
1872 as a disease of old Italian and
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