General Information

 Skin cancer named after Dr. Kaposi

 Used to be extremely rare occurring in older people of Russian-Jewish, Italian and
   African extraction and this older form of Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) still exists

 Lately there has been a significant increase of a more virulent form associated with
   AIDS

 The new form is associated with a generalized abnormality in the immune systems,
   making them subject to unusual viral and protazoan infections

 The new form is caused by Herpes virus 8 infection

 Men are affected over twice as much as women

 These tumors have rich networks of small blood vessels

 The classic KS usually occurs in the elderly, usually over 70 years old