Additional COVID-19 boosters can benefit cancer patients; how often to get them depends on cancer treatment

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Additional COVID-19 boosters can benefit cancer patients; how often to get them depends on cancer treatment
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For many, the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic seems over. However, for patients whose immune systems are compromised by cancer or by cancer therapies, fear of COVID-19 infection and severe disease remains very real.

, more specific guidance is lacking as to when additional COVID-19 boosting would be most effective.

According to the research, increased boosting among cancer patients provides benefits similar to those obtained by non-cancer patients. The study predicts that one out of every three people who forgo boosting will be infected within two years. In contrast, boosting every six months reduces that risk to 1 in 20.

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