A combination of radiation and chemotherapy can also be used to treat invasive disease.
The vaccine has also been shown to be immunogenic in patients at high risk of invasive disease.
He'd been smoking all his life, but there was no indication of invasive disease.
Similarly, 63% of women who did have a family history of breast cancer had invasive disease.
The study shows that from 1996 to 2004, rates of resistant invasive pneumococcal disease peaked in 1999.
Cases may have fallen nationwide, but invasive pneumococcal disease hasn't gone away.
But more than half of serious invasive pneumococcal diseases occur in people who smoke cigarettes.
Although it is an invasive disease, the evasion usually does not go pass the submucosa layer.
They found a 28% drop in overall reported cases of adults with invasive pneumococcal disease between the two time periods.
Even without vaccination, however, most exposed individuals will never get invasive disease.