| Literature DB >> 35923922 |
Giovanni Fucà1, Mara Lecchi2, Chiara Maura Ciniselli2, Arianna Ottini1, Andrea Spagnoletti1, Laura Mazzeo1, Daniele Morelli2, Paola Frati3, Martina Stroscia3, Elisabella Ebrahem1, Elisa Sottotetti1, Giulia Galli1, Maria Grazia D'Elia1, Riccardo Lobefaro1, Monika Ducceschi4, Lorenza Di Guardo1, Sherrie Bhoori5, Salvatore Provenzano6, Marco Platania1, Monica Niger1, Elena Colombo1, Federico Nichetti1, Matteo Duca1, Licia Rivoltini3, Roberta Mortarini7, Paolo Baili2, Giovanni Apolone8, Filippo de Braud9, Paolo Verderio, Silvia Damian10.
Abstract
Background: Systemic immunosuppression characterizing cancer patients represents a concern regarding the efficacy of anti-severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccination, and real-world evidence is needed to define the efficacy and the dynamics of humoral immune response to mRNA-based anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.Entities:
Keywords: COVID19; SARS-CoV-2; cancer patients; mRNA vaccine; solid tumors; vaccination
Year: 2022 PMID: 35923922 PMCID: PMC9340426 DOI: 10.1177/17588359221108687
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ther Adv Med Oncol ISSN: 1758-8340 Impact factor: 5.485
Patients’ characteristics.
| Variable | Patients in the analysis
( | |
|---|---|---|
|
| % | |
| Age | ||
| Median (range) | 62 (24–84) | |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 100 | 41.15 |
| Female | 143 | 58.85 |
| Stage of tumor | ||
| Metastatic | 173 | 71.19 |
| Localized | 70 | 28.81 |
| Type of tumor | ||
| Lung | 41 | 16.87 |
| Breast | 51 | 20.99 |
| Gynecologic | 20 | 8.23 |
| Melanoma | 40 | 16.46 |
| NET | 9 | 3.7 |
| Sarcoma | 18 | 7.41 |
| Gastrointestinal | 17 | 7 |
| Head and neck | 11 | 4.53 |
| Genitourinary | 24 | 9.88 |
| Other | 12 | 4.94 |
| Treatment | ||
| Biological therapy | 106 | 43.62 |
| Chemotherapy | 62 | 25.51 |
| Chemotherapy + immunotherapy | 9 | 3.7 |
| RT/chemo + RT | 2 | 0.82 |
| Immunotherapy | 34 | 13.99 |
| Biological therapy + immunotherapy | 5 | 2.06 |
| None | 15 | 6.17 |
| – | 10 | 4.12 |
| Type of vaccine | ||
| mRNA-1273 | 126 | 51.85 |
| BNT162b2 | 117 | 48.15 |
NET, neuroendocrine tumor; RT, radiotherapy.
Figure 1.Distribution of the anti-spike antibody levels at T1, T2, and T3. Distributions of the antibody titer of the 171 patients at different timepoints (T1, T2, and T3). Each box indicates the 25th and 75th percentiles. The horizontal line and the diamond inside the box indicate the median and the mean, respectively. Whiskers indicate the extreme measured values. Patients with a negative titer after the first dose (T1) are represented with different colors to identify them and evaluate their dynamics of seroconversion in T2 and T3.
Results of univariate and multivariate analyses.
| T2 analysis
( | ∆T3-T2 analysis
( | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univariate analysis | Final multivariate model | Univariate analysis | Final multivariate model | |
| Sex | 0.1665 | – | 0.0042 | 0.0017 |
| Type of vaccine | 0.0832 | – | 0.0381 | 0.0068 |
| Stage of tumor | 0.6744 | – | 0.4440 | – |
| Type of tumor | 0.0072 | – | 0.0102 | – |
| Treatment | 0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0114 | 0.0118 |
| Age | 0.0174 | 0.0230 | 0.7397 | – |
Figure 2.Distributions of the anti-spike antibody levels at T2 and T3 according to selected variables. Distributions of the antibody titer of the 171 patients at T2 (blue box) and T3 (red box), according to sex (panel a), type of tumor (panel b), type of vaccine (panel c), and anticancer treatment class (panel d). Each box indicates the 25th and 75th percentiles. The horizontal line and the circle inside the box indicate the median and the mean, respectively. Whiskers indicate the extreme measured values.
Figure 3.Percentage changes in the antibody levels between T1, T2 and T2, T3. Each blue and red bar represents the median percentage change between T2 and T1 or between T3 and T2, respectively, in each category of the variables of interest. The blue and red dotted reference lines indicate the overall median percentage change for the T2 − T1 and T3 − T2 differences, respectively.