COVID-19 Antibody Seroconversion in Cancer Patients : Impact of Therapy Cessation-A Single-Center Study

BACKGROUND: The effective development of COVID-19 vaccination has mitigated its harm. Using two laboratory methods, we investigated the efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA and BBIBP-CorV COVID-19 vaccines on seroconversion rates in cancer patients undergoing active cancer treatment.

METHODS: SARS-CoV-2 vaccines were scheduled for 134 individuals. The consenting participants submitted three venous blood samples. Three samples: T0, T1, and T2. The ABBOTT-SARS-CoV-2 IgG II Quant and Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 assays were used to evaluate the samples and convert the antibody titers to WHO (BAU)/mL units.

RESULTS: Cancer patients exhibited a higher seroconversion rate at T2, regardless of vaccination type, and the mean antibody titers at T1 and T2 were higher than those at T0. BBIBP-CorV patients required a booster because BNT162b2 showed a higher seroconversion rate between T0 and T1. Statistics indicate that comparing Abbott and Roche quantitative antibody results without considering the sample collection time is inaccurate.

CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 vaccines can still induce a humoral immune response in patients undergoing cancer-targeted therapy. The strength of this study is the long-term monitoring of antibody levels after vaccination in cancer patients on active therapy using two different immunoassays. Further multicenter studies with a larger number of patients are required to validate these findings.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 11(2023), 11 vom: 30. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Souan, Lina [VerfasserIn]
Abdel-Razeq, Hikmat [VerfasserIn]
Nashwan, Sura [VerfasserIn]
Al Badr, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Alrabi, Kamal [VerfasserIn]
Sughayer, Maher A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Active cancer therapy
BBIBP-CorV-virus
COVID-19
Cancer patients
IgG antibody titer
Inactivated vaccine
Journal Article
MRNA vaccine
Pfizer BioNTech (BNT162b2)
SARS-CoV-2

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 27.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines11111659

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364972092