The effects of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) are disfiguring and occasionally painful, but they're not usually lethal. The most common sign of KS is the presence of tumors directly beneath the skin. These skin lesions are often red, purple or brown in...
The lesions associated with the classic form of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) primarily affect the arms, hands, legs and feet. While they're normally painless--except when they grow so large that they put pressure on your blood and lymph vessels--they...
Kaposi sarcoma (KS) used to be a rare form of cancer found mainly in men of Mediterranean or Jewish descent. This changed with the rise in HIV incidence. Now, doctors distinguish the rarer, classic KS from the epidemic KS that affects AIDS...
The CDC reports that there were approximately 36,000 newly diagnosed cases of AIDS infection in the United States in 2008. Symptoms of HIV/AIDS may not appear for many years after exposure. There are five symptoms of AIDS that are vague and...
