Rare sk ncer found three- study of San Francis gays
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GAY MEN AND CANCER
The summer of 1981 saw the first media reports about myster diseas gay men. What did they get right — and wrong? * cancer gay sarcoma *
Doctors New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 s of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of ncer.
KAPOSI'S SARA HIDG MANY GAY MEN
But the doctors who have ma the diagnos, mostly New York Cy and the San Francis Bay area, are alertg other physicians who treat large numbers of homosexual men to the problem an effort to help intify more s and to rce the lay offerg chemotherapy sudn appearance of the ncer, lled Kaposi's Sara, has prompted a medil vtigatn that experts say uld have as much scientific as public health importance bee of what may teach about termg the of more mon typ of ncer.
But the recent s, doctors at ne medil centers New York and seven hospals California have been diagnosg the ndn among younger men, all of whom said the urse of standard diagnostic terviews that they were homosexual. Friedman-Kien, the reportg doctors said that most s had volved homosexual men who have had multiple and equent sexual enunters wh different partners, as many as 10 sexual enunters each night up to four tim a of the patients have also been treated for viral fectns such as herp, cytomegalovis and hepatis B as well as parasic fectns such as amebiasis and giardiasis. Friedman-Kien Curran said there was no apparent danger to nonhomosexuals om ntagn.
''The bt evince agast ntagn, '' he said, ''is that no s have been reported to date outsi the homosexual muny or women.