Shingles And Breast Cancer Recurrence

Shingles is most common in people older than 50 and the risk of shingles continues to increase as people age.

Shingles and breast cancer recurrence. A shingles vaccine is available to help prevent the disorder and reduce the likelihood of recurrent shingles. Some experts estimate that half the people who live to age 85 will experience shingles at some point in their lives. Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox. Nineteen people per 10 000 who had received the shingles vaccine had a shingles recurrence.

A rare form of breast cancer can give you a rash and make you feel sore. And those with a solid tumor such as cancer in the lung breast prostate or other organ had a 30 percent higher risk of shingles than people without cancer study first author jiahui qian. Researchers also found that increases in zoster risk for people with blood cancer was apparent two years before diagnosis. Also called herpes zoster shingles can come back a second or rarely a third time.

In those who had not received the vaccine recurrence occurred in 24 people per 10 000. But you can take steps to help prevent it or ease. In the study from 2011 the recurrence occurred from 96 days to 10 years after the initial shingles outbreak but this study covered only a 12 year period. Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.

Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. The risk for shingles was 30 percent higher in those with solid organ cancers such as cancer located in the lung breast prostate or other organ compared with someone without cancer. 2 2009 philadelphia people with shingles are more likely to suffer a recurrence than previously thought especially if their attack is accompanied by lasting pain researchers report.