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A new study that followed a cohort of more than 110,000 people establishes significant disparities in the risk of anal cancer for people with HIV and for men who have sex with men with HIV, depending on the region of the country they live in.

But this study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on May 7, is the first to show vast geographic disparities in anal cancer risk and an association with opportunistic illnesses and co-morbidities, like diabetes, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease, for people with HIV.

People with HIV have a greater relative risk of anal cancer compared with people without HIV, no matter where they live.

However, he noted that screening rates for anal cancer are relatively higher in the Northeast and West.

In fact, Deshmukh contributed to the recent International Anal Neoplasia Society's consensus guidelines, published in January.