For Blood Cancer Patients, COVID Boosters Can Bring Some Immunity

MONDAY, July 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In a promising development, new research has discovered that most adults with blood cancers develop at least some immunity to COVID-19 after getting booster shots.

"Our findings build on the wealth of literature showing that patients with hematologic malignancies have an impaired response to COVID vaccination," said study author Dr. Thomas Ollila, an assistant professor of medicine in the department of hematology and oncology at Brown University in Rhode Island.

"Importantly, we show that many of these patients who did not respond initially will in fact have a response to booster vaccination," he added in a university news release.