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- Title
Impaired neutralizing antibody response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in cancer patients.
- Authors
Zeng, Cong; Evans, John P.; Reisinger, Sarah; Woyach, Jennifer; Liscynesky, Christina; Boghdadly, Zeinab El; Rubinstein, Mark P.; Chakravarthy, Karthik; Saif, Linda; Oltz, Eugene M.; Gumina, Richard J.; Shields, Peter G.; Li, Zihai; Liu, Shan-Lu
- Abstract
There is currently a critical need to determine the efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for immunocompromised patients. In this study, we determined the neutralizing antibody response in 160 cancer patients diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), lung cancer, breast cancer, and various non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL), after they received two doses of mRNA vaccines. Serum from 46 mRNA vaccinated health care workers (HCWs) served as healthy controls. We discovered that (1) cancer patients exhibited reduced neutralizing antibody titer (NT50) compared to HCWs; (2) CLL and NHL patients exhibited the lowest NT50 levels, with 50-60% of them below the detection limit; (3) mean NT50 levels in patients with CLL and NHL was ~2.6 fold lower than those with solid tumors; and (4) cancer patients who received anti-B cell therapy exhibited significantly reduced NT50 levels. Our results demonstrate an urgent need for novel immunization strategies for cancer patients against SARS-CoV-2, particularly those with hematological cancers and those on anti-B cell therapies.
- Subjects
MEDICAL personnel; COVID-19 vaccines; CANCER patients; CANCER vaccines; ANTIBODY formation; IMMUNOGLOBULINS
- Publication
Cell & Bioscience, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-3701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13578-021-00713-2