Immunologic consequences of chemotherapy for ovarian cancer: Impaired responses to the influenza vaccine
Highlights • Patients undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer are profoundly immunosuppressed and unable to mount an adequate immune response to seasonal influenza vaccine. • The B cell compartment was significantly functionally compromised. • Monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis was seen.
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Veröffentlicht in: | Vaccine 2013-11, Vol.31 (46), p.5435-5442 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Highlights • Patients undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer are profoundly immunosuppressed and unable to mount an adequate immune response to seasonal influenza vaccine. • The B cell compartment was significantly functionally compromised. • Monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis was seen. |
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ISSN: | 0264-410X 1873-2518 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.09.001 |