Should breast cancer patients with never-treated latent TB and for whom chemotherapy is indicated be treated for latent TB during chemotherapy?
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Medical Oncology · Lincoln Medical Center
Interestingly latent tb reactivation while on cyclic combination Chemotherapy is quite rare even in endemic countries like India, including among patients treated for leukemia. This could be due to cyclic nature of immune suppression rather than chronic immune suppression which is required for tb re...