{"id":165401,"date":"2023-06-08T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/covid-19-vaccine-boosts-effectiveness-of-anti-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2023-06-08T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:23:39","slug":"covid-19-vaccine-boosts-effectiveness-of-anti-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/covid-19-vaccine-boosts-effectiveness-of-anti-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Vaccine \u201cBoosts\u201d Effectiveness of Anti-Cancer Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/covid-19-vaccine-boosts-effectiveness-of-anti-cancer-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A collaborative study has found that immunization with the vaccine SinoVac might improve responses to treatment in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annalsofoncology.org\/article\/S0923-7534(22)04188-6\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> as a \u201cLetter to the Editor\u201d in the journal <i>Annals of Oncology.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><b>Fears that COVID-19 vaccination may interfere with cancer treatment <\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cancer cells are clever. They can adapt methods to avoid or divert the body\u2019s immune response to protect their growth and prevent being destroyed. One approach is to target a protein found on T cells called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/publications\/dictionaries\/cancer-terms\/def\/pd-1\" target=\"_blank\">programmed cell death protein 1<\/a>, or PD-1. When PD-1 is bound to its ligand, PD-L1, it prevents T cells from killing malignant cells. Drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors can block PD-1, releasing the \u201cbrakes\u201d on the immune response such that the T cells\u2019 ability to kill cancer cells is unleashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaborative study has found that immunization with the vaccine SinoVac might improve responses to treatment in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). The research is published as a \u201cLetter to the Editor\u201d in the journal Annals of Oncology. Fears that COVID-19 vaccination may interfere with cancer treatment Cancer cells are clever. They can adapt methods [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}