The risk of tuberculosis in patients with cancer Journal Article
| Authors: | Kamboj, M.; Sepkowitz, K. A. |
| Article Title: | The risk of tuberculosis in patients with cancer |
| Abstract: | Current US guidelines for the management of latent tuberculosis infection in cancer patients are based on studies from 1970s, yet much about cancer care has changed in the interim. In a review of our experience during the past 25 years, we found that incidence of tuberculosis varied significantly according to country of birth and cancer type. Foreign-born patients with underlying hematologic neoplasm had a tuberculosis rate 50-100 times higher than US-born patients, whereas US-born patients with an underlying solid tumor had the same tuberculosis rate as US-born persons without cancer. These findings may help guide the management of latent tuberculosis infection in persons with cancer. © 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. |
| Keywords: | adolescent; adult; child; aged; aged, 80 and over; child, preschool; middle aged; retrospective studies; solid tumor; united states; cancer patient; neoplasms; colorectal cancer; breast cancer; risk factors; lung cancer; practice guideline; hodgkin disease; risk assessment; prostate cancer; acute leukemia; hematologic malignancy; nonhodgkin lymphoma; infant; head and neck cancer; infection risk; tuberculosis; chronic leukemia; emigration and immigration |
| Journal Title: | Clinical Infectious Diseases |
| Volume: | 42 |
| Issue: | 11 |
| ISSN: | 1058-4838 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Date Published: | 2006-06-01 |
| Start Page: | 1592 |
| End Page: | 1595 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1086/503917 |
| PUBMED: | 16652317 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | --- - "Cited By (since 1996): 19" - "Export Date: 4 June 2012" - "CODEN: CIDIE" - "Source: Scopus" |
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