Increased Antibiotic Resistance May Lead To More Deaths, Infections Among Patients Undergoing Surgery Or Chemotherapy.

reports that the study “estimates that as many as half of infections after surgery and more than a quarter of infections after chemotherapy are caused by organisms already resistant to standard antibiotics.” Investigators “projected” that “if antibiotic resistance increases by just 30 percent in the United States, the tougher-to-treat bacteria could cause 6,300 more deaths a year and 120,000 more infections in patients undergoing either chemotherapy for cancer or 10 common surgical procedures.” http://consumer.healthday.com/cancer-information-5/chemotherapy-news-122/antibiotic-resistance-could-threaten-surgery-chemo-patients-704289.html