The ANCHOR Study

Landmark anal cancer prevention trial in people living with HIV. The trial has completed enrolling participants and finished all follow-up visits.

Our primary results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine at: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201048.

See https://anchorstudy.org, or the clinicaltrials.gov listing for this trial, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02135419, for more information on this study.

For information on the new anal cancer screening guidelines for people living with HIV, which were based in part on this study's results, see the Centers for Disease Control's Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents With HIV, Section on Human Papillomavirus: https://clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/guidelines/hiv-clinical-guidelines-adult-and-adolescent-opportunistic-infections/human?view=full