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Cancer Patients Are at Increased Risk of Complications From the Flu and Should Receive Flu Shots, but Not the Nasal Spray

by Jim Bakken

February 04, 2014
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Cancer patients who are actively being treated for cancer can safely receive flu shots, Mollie deShazo, MD, told The ASCO Post. “It is not going to be dangerous for them. The question is how effective it will be.” Dr. deShazo is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology and Medical Director of Inpatient Oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

http://www.ascopost.com/issues/february-1,-2014/cancer-patients-are-at-increased-risk-of-complications-from-the-flu-and-should-receive-flu-shots,-but-not-the-nasal-spray.aspx

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