{"id":21428,"date":"2023-04-05T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=21428"},"modified":"2023-04-05T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:05:41","slug":"do-i-need-to-undergo-cancer-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/21428","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to undergo cancer screening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>It is great to hear that your treatment is working well and that you have been undetectable for the last 1.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>There are no additional screening programmes specific for people living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The only increased screening is for cervical cancer. In the UK this is every 3 years for the general population however it can be offered yearly for women who are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am undetectable for the last 1.5 years and taking Biktarvy with antibiotics. My CD4 count was 74 when diagnosed (now CD4 count is 220) so do I need to undergo any cancer screening? I have asked my doctor and he told that not required. Is there any standard process to undergo cancer screening for HIV patient?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21429,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions\/21429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}