Impaired neutralizing antibody response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in cancer patients.

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 soli

SUBMITTER: Zeng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606166 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature