Infection is one of the most common life-threatening complications of cancer. While you are being treated for cancer, there are things you can do to reduce your risk of infection.
Infections in People With Cancer
TOPICS
- What are infections and who is at risk?
- How does the body normally resist infections?
- What risk factors make people with cancer more likely to get infections?
- Immune suppression, leukopenia, and neutropenia
- Problems due to the cancer
- Poor nutrition
- Cancer treatment and infection risk
- Neutropenia and risk of serious infection
- How does the doctor know what kind of infection a person with cancer has?
- What kinds of germs cause infections in people with cancer?
- What can people with cancer do to prevent infections?
- Immunizations and live virus vaccines
- Precautions you can take
- Using medicines to prevent infections
- What signs of infection should people with cancer watch for?
- How is infection treated in people with cancer?
- To learn more
- References
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Immunizations and live virus vaccines
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Last Medical Review: 11/23/2011
Last Revised: 11/23/2011
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