Use in 2017 does not use a live form of the virus and may be safe for people with weakened immune systems including those receiving chemotherapy the.
Taking chemo with shingles.
As a result patients with cancer who receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy or patients with leukemia or lymphoma affecting the bone marrow or lymphatics could not receive the shingles.
My onc said he had seen a few cases of shingles on chemo its because your immune system has dropped thus triggering off the virus which we have lying dormant in our body after having chicken poxs.
Shingles is a very common disease in older adults and occurs when the varicella zoster virus which causes chickenpox is reactivated.
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I had shingles right before i was diagnosed in 2009.
Liu and her colleagues hoped to better understand which cancer types make a patient more vulnerable to shingles and whether the risk comes more from chemotherapy related immune suppression or the cancer itself.
There are many stressors that can cause a shingles outbreak including chemo stress cancer broken bones etc.
Do hope you get it sorted chemo is bad enough without that on top.
A shingles vaccine approved for u s.
The most important thing about shingles is to catch it early.