How common are AIDS-related cancers?

In the United States and other developed nations, about 40 percent of people with HIV or AIDS get cancer - especially certain types. For example, people with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) face an 800 times greater chance than someone without HIV of developing Kaposi sarcoma, a cancer usually marked by dark lesions on the body. People with HIV also face a greater chance of developing Hodgkin lymphoma (10 times greater), anal cancer (nine times greater), non-Hodgkin lymphoma (seven times greater), liver or lung cancer (three to four times greater), and cervical cancer (three times greater) than people without HIV.