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Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that causes lesions in the soft tissues, such as skin, internal organs and mucous membranes that line the mouth, nose and throat. It often affects people with immune deficiencies like HIV or AIDS. Several clinical trials, led by Ramya Ramaswami, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Physician-Scientist Early Investigator in the HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch, are researching immunotherapy to treat the disease in patients with or without HIV/AIDS. The trials will take place at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and there is no cost for participation.
For more information, please contact Irene Ekwede, R.N., at (240) 760-6126 or ekwedeib@mail.nih.gov.
The Center for Cancer Research is NCI’s internal cancer center, a publicly funded organization working to improve the lives of cancer patients by solving important, challenging and neglected problems in cancer research and patient care. Highly trained physician-scientists develop and carry out clinical trials to create the medicines of tomorrow treating patients at the world’s largest dedicated research hospital on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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