Acta Scientific Microbiology (ISSN: 2581-3226)

Short Communication Volume 4 Issue 10

COVID-19 Vaccination in Cancer Patients

Attapon Cheepsattayakorn1,2*, Ruangrong Cheepsattayakorn3 and Porntep Siriwanarangsun1

1Faculty of Medicine, Western University, Pathumtani Province, Thailand
210thZonal Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand
3Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

*Corresponding Author: Attapon Cheepsattayakorn, 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Disease Center, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Received: August 27, 2021 ; Published: September 08, 2021

  In patients with cancer, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) can contribute to increasing morbidity and mortality [1-3] and decreased survival was found in patients with hematological and intrathoracic malignancies, poor performance status, comorbidities, and increased age [3-5]. Patients with hematological malignancies who were treated with stem cell transplantation and anti-CD-20 antibody demonstrated lower rates of seroconversion, compared to COVID-19-infected-cancer patients [6,7]. Patients with hematological malignancies might have substantially compromised B-cell and T-cell responses [8]. These study results indicated that following COVID-19 vaccination, overall high seroconversion rates could be anticipated in cancer patients due to different mechanisms and degrees of immune suppression, such as cell therapies (particularly chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell), anti-CD-20 antibody (B-cell depleting) therapies, stem cell transplantation, immunosuppressive effects of corticosteroid treatment, and cytotoxic-chemotherapy-bone-marrow-suppressive effects in certain subgroups of cancer patients [9]. Currently, there are lacking data in cancer patients in protection following SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection, reinfection by various SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) variants, or COVID-19 vaccination although mucosal surface antigens (e.g. IgA and protective T-cell responses) might be similarly important in protection from natural SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection [10]. The association of carcinogenesis with genomic information encoding vaccines, particularly with very-transient-intracellular-presence-COVID-19-mRNA vaccines is likely very low [11].

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Citation

Citation: Attapon Cheepsattayakorn.,et al. “COVID-19 Vaccination in Cancer Patients”. Acta Scientific Microbiology 4.10 (2021): 21-22.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2021 Attapon Cheepsattayakorn.,et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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