COVID-19 Vaccine Among Actively-Treated People With Cancer: A Glimpse Into the Known Unknowns?

Astha Thakkar¹, Sanjay Mishra², Jeremy L Warner^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
² Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Editorial

Astha Thakkar et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2022.

. 2022 Feb 7;114(2):169-171.

doi: 10.1093/jnci/djab175.

Astha Thakkar¹, Sanjay Mishra², Jeremy L Warner^{2

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¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
² Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
⁴ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

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