Abstract：
CONTEXT:Cancer patients have impaired humoral and cellular immunity, and are more susceptible to infections; their immunological response is expected to be less effective than that of healthy people. OBJECTIVES:To assess the immune response to influenza vaccine in terminally ill cancer patients in a home palliative care unit. METHODS:During the fall of 2000-2001, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007, terminally ill cancer patients treated by our home palliative care unit were vaccinated against influenza with Vaxigrip(®). Blood samples were taken before and four weeks after vaccination. Influenza immunological response parameters accepted in the literature were calculated. RESULTS:Eighteen terminal cancer patients were vaccinated against influenza strains predicted for that year; 13 completed the study. The other five patients died within less than a month from the time of vaccination. The serum protection rate increased from 15.4% before to 61.5% after vaccination, and the serum response rate was 53.8% for all the three strains of vaccination. Mean-fold increase was 24.9 for influenza A-H1N1, 15.4 for influenza A-H3N2, and 2.8 for influenza B. Geometric mean titer was increased for influenza A-H3N2 from 8.3 before vaccination to 159.4 after vaccination; for influenza A-H1N1 from 5.2 to 124.3, and for influenza B from 5.7 to 44.6. CONCLUSION:The results indicate that influenza vaccination is probably effective and can be offered to terminally ill cancer patients with a life expectancy of about three months in a home care palliative care unit.
journal_name
J Pain Symptom Managejournal_title
Journal of pain and symptom managementauthors
Sasson M,Mandelboim M,Shvartzman Pdoi
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.05.016subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2011-02-01 00:00:00pages
485-90issue
2eissn
0885-3924issn
1873-6513pii
S0885-3924(10)00694-9journal_volume
41pub_type
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