By PPN News Staff
People newly diagnosed with cancer, particularly hematologic cancers, and those treated with chemotherapy have a greater risk for developing shingles (J Infect Dis 2018 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print]).
The large prospective study expands on previous research by examining the risk for shingles before and after a new cancer diagnosis and across a range of cancer types among approximately 240,000 adults in Australia, from 2006 to 2015.