Disease- and Therapy-Specific impact on Humoral immune Responses to cOViD-19 Vaccination in Hematologic Malignancies

  • David J. Chung
  • , Gunjan L. Shah
  • , Sean M. Devlin
  • , Lakshmi V. Ramanathan
  • , Sital Doddi
  • , Melissa S. Pessin
  • , Elizabeth Hoover
  • , Lee Ann T. Marcello
  • , Jennifer C. Young
  • , Sawsan R. Boutemine
  • , Edith Serrano
  • , Saumya Sharan
  • , Saddia Momotaj
  • , Lauren Margetich
  • , Christina D. Bravo
  • , Genovefa A. Papanicolaou
  • , Mini Kamboj
  • , Anthony R. Mato
  • , Lindsey E. Roeker
  • , Malin Hultcrantz
  • Sham Mailankody, Alexander M. Lesokhin, Santosha A. Vardhana, David A. Knorr

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) vaccine response data for patients with hematologic malignancy, who carry high risk for severe COVID-19 illness, are incomplete. In a study of 551 hematologic malignancy patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma, anti–SARS-CoV-2 spike IgG titers and neutralizing activity were measured at 1 and 3 months from initial vaccination. Compared with healthy controls, patients with hematologic malignancy had attenuated antibody titers at 1 and 3 months. Furthermore, patients with hematologic malignancy had markedly diminished neutralizing capacity of 26.3% at 1 month and 43.6% at 3 months, despite positive seroconversion rates of 51.5% and 68.9% at the respective time points. Healthy controls had 93.2% and 100% neutralizing capacity at 1 and 3 months, respectively. Patients with leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma on observation had uniformly blunted responses. Treatment with Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitors, venetoclax, phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitors, anti-CD19/CD20–directed therapies, and anti-CD38/B-cell maturation antigen–directed therapies substantially hindered responses, but single-agent immunomodulatory agents did not.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)568-576
Number of pages9
JournalBlood cancer discovery
Volume2
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2021
Externally publishedYes

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