What The Study Did: T he SARS-CoV-2 BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine appeared to be safe and achieve satisfactory serologic status in patients with cancer. While there was a lag in antibody production compared with the rate in the noncancer control group , seroconversion occurred in most patients after the second dose.
Authors: Irit Ben-Aharon, M.D., Ph.D., of the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa , Israel , is the corresponding author.
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