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COVID-19 vaccination may protect cancer patients from long COVID

Miriam Davis | Clinical Summary | 16 March 2023

Vaccination appears to emerge as an effective means to prevent long COVID and ensuing death typically from disruption of cancer therapy.

Takeaway

COVID-19 vaccination appears to protect patients with cancer from COVID-19 sequelae (i.e., long COVID), based on analysis of the OnCovid registry.
Patients with cancer who have any COVID-19 sequelae (vs no sequelae) have a 61% increase in death.
These findings by European and UK investigators appear in The Lancet...

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March Challenge

Prediabetes: do lifestyle interventions and/or metformin prevent retinopathy?

What does 3 on an EHRA symptom scale mean for patients with atrial fibrillation?

What is the gold standard lab test for Mpox?

Which of the following is true regarding hyperparathyroidism?

What is the nonpsychiatric side of peripartum suicide?

Which region in the world has the highest concentration of people with hearing loss?

What is the leading cause of death in low-income countries?

Which of these bacterial species can cause a tick-borne relapsing fever?

What are the causes of an adult-acquired flatfoot deformity?

Are Listeria outbreaks linked to imported food items?

What is the most common condition for foetal stillbirths in South Asia?

How to classify nasoorbitoethmoid fractures?

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How do you therapeutically manage inferiority complex disorder?

What are the causes of intrinsic restrictive lung diseases?

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What is not a criterion in the ADA risk scoring for thrombosis in patients with COVID-19?

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Which is not a policy document of the World Medical Association?

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What is an anterior and posterior approach for cervical spondylotic myelopathy?

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Chapare virus is endemic to which of the following countries?

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