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
Hauptverfasser: Chu, Christina S, Boyer, Jean D, Jawad, Abbas, Mcdonald, Kenyetta, Rogers, Wade T, Luning Prak, Eline T, Sullivan, Kathleen E
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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.
ISSN:0264-410X
1873-2518
DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2013.09.001