Shingles And Inflammatory Breast Cancer

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 and inflammatory breast cancer. Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Can shingles cause breast cancer. Two rashes have been studied with malignant histories. Many women don t feel a lump.

For example can shingles cause breast cancer. Painful itchy blisters that result from the same virus that causes. Inflammatory breast cancer ibc. The same study reported an increased risk for heart attacks in the three months after shingles but the additional risk dissipated after six months.

Inflammatory breast cancer symptoms result from a buildup of fluid in your breast. A plos medicine study that tracked about 67 000 people ages 65 and older who were newly diagnosed with shingles found that stroke risk more than doubled in the first week after the shingles diagnosis. The symptoms include breast swelling and redness. 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.

Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox.