title: Impaired serum antibody response to inactivated influenza A and B vaccine in cancer patients.
abstract: The serum antibody response to vaccination with bivalent inactivated influenza vaccine containing A/Port Chalmers/1/73 (H3N2) and B/Hong Kong/5/72 antigens was assessed in 44 patients with cancer and in 27 healthy control subjects. A fourfold or greater increase in antibody titre after vaccination occurred in 16 of the 44 cancer patients and 25 of the 27 controls for the A antigen, and in 14 of the 44 cancer patients and 20 of the 27 controls for the B antigen. Patients with lymphoma, who tended to have hypogammaglobulinemia, responded less well than did patients with solid tumours. Among the latter the failure to show a fourfold or greater increase in antibody titre correlated with a poorer 18-month survival.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis*; D000917:Antibody Formation; D006801:Humans; D009980:Influenza A virus / Q000276:immunology; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D011379:Prognosis; D014611:Vaccination
chemical_list: D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D007252:Influenza Vaccines