cancer developed a good immune response to the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines three to four weeks after receiving their second dose.
However, the fact that a small group of the patients exhibited no response raised questions about how their protection against the virus will be addressed moving forward.
The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Cancer Cell'. Among the 131 patients studied, 94 per cent developed antibodies to the coronavirus.
Seven high-risk patients did not. "We could not find any antibodies against the virus in those patients," said Dimpy P. Shah, MD, PhD, of the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson. "That has implications for the future.