Cancer and AIDS by Christopher Kwesi O. Williams

Author:Christopher Kwesi O. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319993591
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Kaposi sarcoma, which was described in Vienna by Kaposi in 1872, was subsequently recognized for its rarity in Europe and North America [79]. Quenum and Camain [80] reported on the high incidence of the cancer in certain parts of Africa in 1949, followed by the first international symposium on the disease in 1961, about 2 decades before its outbreak as a pandemic and a sentinel disease of the then new disease HIV/AIDS in the early 1980s.Through studies of Kaposi’s sarcoma carried out in East and Central Africa in the 1950s and 1960s, the world had considerable awareness about the pathology and treatment of the African endemic form of the disease, which some 30 years later proved useful in understanding its epidemic variant that became the first HIV/AIDS-associated disease in the 1980s in the United States [81]. Figure 2.2 is a picture of pioneers in cancer chemotherapy in Africa, including Dr. Denis Burkitt, Dr. Charles L.M. Olweny and Dr. Christopher K. Williams.

Fig. 2.2Picture of Denis Burkitt (left), Christopher Williams (middle) and Charles Olweny (right), taken at a meeting at the International Agency For Research On Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, 1984. (Reproduced with the courtesy of Dr. Charles L.M. Olweny)

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