There are many stressors that can cause a shingles outbreak including chemo stress cancer broken bones etc.
Taking chemo with 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.
A shingles vaccine approved for u s.
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.
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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Do hope you get it sorted chemo is bad enough without that on top.
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.
Cleveland clinic is a non profit academic medical center.
I had shingles right before i was diagnosed in 2009.
The sooner that you get on valtrex the less likely you are to experience postherpetic neuralgia.