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Protective immunity to live vaccines among children with solid tumors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2018
Abstract
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Determine whether children with solid tumors maintain intact protective immunity to live vaccines during cancer therapy and after completing cancer therapy (postTx). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: We will perform a prospective cohort study of children with solid tumors (Hodgkin lymphoma, brain, Wilms, and germ cell tumors) followed at the Puerto Rico’s University Pediatric Hospital. Protective immunity will be measured with antibody titers against live vaccines (Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella) at diagnosis, during cancer therapy, upon completion and 3 months postTx. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: We hypothesize that those patients with protective immunity to live vaccines prior to cancer therapy will lose it at the end of therapy. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Loss of protective immunity to live vaccines has been reported in patients with hematologic malignancies after cancer therapy. This lack of protective immunity, which puts patients at higher risk of acquiring vaccine preventable diseases, has been limited studied in patients with solid tumors. The Center for Diseases Control has been established that it is safe to immunize cancer survivors with live vaccines 3 months post Tx. However, no clear guidelines for revaccination have been provided for this population. Understanding the protective immunity variation against live vaccines in children with solid tumors will allow us to identify the need for revaccination with live vaccines in this vulnerable population.
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- Mechanistic Basic to Clinical
- Information
- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science , Volume 1 , Supplement S1 , September 2017 , pp. 64 - 65
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- This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- © The Association for Clinical and Translational Science 2018