Vaccine boosters help keep cancer patients from being hospitalized or admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19, ...

Cancer patients who receive COVID boosters are far less likely to be hospitalized, but vaccination rates remain alarmingly ...

COVID boosters reduced cancer patients’ hospitalizations and ICU stays by 29%, researchers report in JAMA Oncology. Overall, ...

Despite offering significant protection against severe COVID-19, patients with cancer, a high-risk group, showed low uptake of booster vaccinations.

During 34,006 person-years of follow-up among 72,831 people with cancer (24.6% women), the COVID hospitalization rate was ...

While we have returned to many aspects of pre-pandemic life, the coronavirus has not completely disappeared.  Notably, cancer ...

A recent study revealed that cancer patients are at a significantly higher risk of contracting a severe COVID infection, but ...

The rate at which additional COVID-19 boosters are needed for cancer patients, the researchers say, depends on the treatment they are receiving. The study, published Aug. 21 in JNCI: ...

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A COVID-19 booster shot may be beneficial for patients with cancer who are undergoing treatment ...

People with cancer are often given immunosuppressive treatments that weaken their innate immune defenses. This puts them at high risk of severe disease, should they become infected by COVID-19. But a ...

Vaccine boosters help keep cancer patients from being hospitalized or admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19, according to a new study led by Cedars-Sinai investigators.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The Biden administration is expected to recommend widespread use of COVID vaccine booster shots. Sources within the administration say the shots will be issued eight ...