Waning efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination at six months in patients (pts) with genitourinary malignancies.

Authors

Zeynep Zengin

Zeynep Busra Zengin

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA

Zeynep Busra Zengin , Luis A Meza , Jasnoor Malhotra , Sabrina Salgia , Jennifer Ely , Joann Hsu , Erin Kelley , Heather Mead , Nazli Dizman , Alex Chehrazi-Raffle , Ameish Govindarajan , Ramya Muddasani , Neal Shiv Chawla , Tanya B. Dorff , Yung Lyou , Ewa Karczewska , Jeffrey M. Trent , Ravi Salgia , John Altin , Sumanta K. Pal

Organizations

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, Translational Genomics Research Institute North, Flagstaff, AZ, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ

Research Funding

No funding received

Background: Short-term effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination is widely demonstrated, but the emerging real-world data suggest that immunity may wane over-time (Levin et al. NEJM 2021). Herein we aimed to explore the long-term efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccination among pts with genitourinary cancer. Methods: In this study, pts with genitourinary malignancies (prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers) who had not received COVID-19 vaccination were included. Blood samples were collected prior to and after one dose of either an adenovirus- or mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine at the 2- and 6-month timepoints. Additional blood samples from pts receiving systemic treatment were collected at 3 consecutive therapy cycles following vaccination. Antibody titers were assessed using the SCoV-2 Detect IgG ELISA assay and results were reported as immune status ratios (ISR). T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire sequencing was performed using the MiXCR software (MiLabs) and custom strips were used to assess TCR abundance and homology clustering. Results: A total of 183 pts were enrolled, and 136 pts provided baseline blood samples. Among these, 59 (8:51 F:M) provided samples for both the 2- and 6-month timepoints by the 10/6/2021 data cut-off. In this subset of pts, median age was 66 (range 48-85) and 33 (55.9%), 25 (42.4%), and 1 (1.7%) pts had prostate, kidney, and bladder cancer, respectively. A majority of the pts (93.2%) were on systemic treatment with 23.7% on immune checkpoint inhibitors, 18.6% on targeted agents, and 1.7% on chemotherapy. The most commonly administered vaccines were BNT162b2 (61.0%) followed by mRNA-1273 (37.3%) and Ad26.COV2.S (1.7%). The mean (±standard deviation) ISR values at baseline and 2 months were 0.68±1.59 and 6.62±1.75, respectively. At the 6-month timepoint, mean ISR was 5.46±1.61; this was significantly lower than the 2-month antibody titers (p < 0.0001), and reflects a reduction of 17.6%. Further data on TCR sequencing will be presented at the meeting. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first data assessing the long-term serologic outcomes of COVID-19 vaccination in pts with cancer. Our data suggest waning immunity over time in cancer pts. Strategies to prolong host immunity against SARS COV-2 (e.g., booster vaccination) are likely warranted.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Prostate Cancer

Track

Prostate Cancer - Advanced,Prostate Cancer - Localized

Sub Track

Other

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 6; abstr 185)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.6_suppl.185

Abstract #

185

Poster Bd #

K3

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