Re: Objection! (was: ...con HIV)

[Tuan V Nguyen <t.nguyen@garvan.unsw.edu.au>]

Hello anh Vinh and folks,

        Yesterday, I wrote "play with the data against your hypothesis" does
NOT mean AGAINST your hypothesis per se; it should be read as corroborate
your hypothesis. Any theory or proposition can and should be tested by data.
I believe that our (Vietnamese) medical research lacks this credibility. I
visited the faculty of medicine in 1993 and found that a lot of research
data obtained there had not been evaluated properly. 

        Nevertheless, your own clinical observation is very important.
Remember the case of Dr McBride in the journal Lancet years ago? I suggest
you to document (or recollect) data on AIDS and double pneumonia plus any
other medical parameters that you deem relevant. You might consider a sort
of case-control study (I can talk to you more on this kind of design, if you
wish). It is not difficult nor long to analyse the data and publish the
results (if they are interesting).

        Re the question of "whether the AIDS patient can get cancer as a
result of AIDS?", I have asked a colleague here and he told me that there is
weak evidence for this association, although the precise mechanism is not
clear. You can perform a MEDLINE search to see any research has been done in
this important area.

        Kind regards,


        Tuan Nguyen


At 06:14 AM 5/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear anh Tuan V Nguyen and all
>I never do any research on HIV/AIDS, so I don't have any data. What I am
>talking is from my clinical experience. All AIDS patients I have seen in
>ICU (Khoa Ho^`i su+'c ca^'p cu+'u) have had severe double pneumonia.
>They all ended by ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). What we
>are talking is not a research work, it is about what diseases the AIDS
>patient can get more as a firm consequence. More specifically, weather
>the AIDS patient can get cancer as a result of AIDS? 
>
>VH Vinh