Friday, June 3, 2011

Health News from Medical News Today: FSU Scientist Leads Research On AIDS-Related Cancer

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FSU Scientist Leads Research On AIDS-Related Cancer
3 Jun 2011, 8:00 am

In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, a once-rare form of cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) emerged as a frequent harbinger of HIV. Its stigma was best illustrated by Tom Hanks, who portrayed a gay man trying to conceal the cancerous skin lesions from his co-workers in the 1993 movie "Philadelphia." A few years after the movie's release, Fanxiu Zhu was a young virologist searching for a postdoctoral position. He found one, in Philadelphia, at a university laboratory investigating a newly identified virus linked to KS...


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