CHOWDHURY YAKUB JAMAL
Tuberculosis is often not considered an entity in cancer particularly in childhood cancer. As with immunocompromised states like HIV the chances of tuberculosis is more in cancer due to the disease itself and also for the chemotherapeutic agents particularly high doses of steroid which render a patient to be more vulnerable. More so latent
tuberculosis which may not need any treatment in the immunocompetent host might develop into an active state in child with cancer which if not treated could be fatal. There are many tumors like Hodgkin lymphoma which can concurrently have Tuberculosis due to the T helper cell defect.