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. 2021 Aug 23;39(36):5075-5077.
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.063. Epub 2021 Jul 24.

COVID-19 vaccination for cancer patients: Evidence, priority, and practice

Shiv Rajan  1 , Naseem Akhtar  2 , Sonali Sharma  3 , Deep Chakrabarti  4 , Vijay Kumar  2
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COVID-19 vaccination for cancer patients: Evidence, priority, and practice

Shiv Rajan et al. Vaccine. .
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID Vaccine; COVID19; Cancer; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Surgery.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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