CAUSE
In people with AIDS, the disease caused by immune system disorders and recent research advances a combination of disorders of the immune system with a type of herpes virus that has not been identified.

SYMPTOMS
There are two different forms of Kaposi’s sarcoma:

• Disease in the elderly, usually on the Europeans, Jewish or Italian.
• Cancers grow very slowly and rarely spread.
• Disease in children and young men in Africa and in people with AIDS.
• Cancer grows much faster and often involve blood vessels in organs.

In older men, Kaposi’s sarcoma usually appears as purple or dark brown spots on the toes or limbs. Cancer can grow to a size bebarapa centimeters or more, as the dark areas are flat or slightly prominent, the tendency to bleed and form ulcers. Cancer can spread slowly to the leg.

In Africans and in people with AIDS, cancer is usually first appear as spots of pink, red or purple, oval shaped or round. These spots can appear anywhere on the body, but often grow in the face. In recent months other spots appeared in some parts of the body, including the mouth, also on the internal organs and lymph nodes and can cause internal bleeding.

Diagnosis
Diagnosis based on symptoms and skin biopsy results.

TREATMENT
Kaposi’s sarcoma in the elderly is growing slowly and is not accompanied by other symptoms, requiring no treatment at all. But the spots are formed can be treated with freezing, X-ray therapy or elektrokauterisasi (destruction of tissue by using an electric needle).

For people with AIDS and an aggressive form of cancer, no treatment is very satisfactory. Chemotherapy with etoposide, vincristine, vinblastine, bleomycin and doxorubicin yielded disappointing results. Alpha-interferon and vincristine injection into the cancer can be slow disease progression.