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. 2021 Dec 24;29(1):68–76. doi: 10.3390/curroncol29010006

Table 2.

Anti-spike Antibody Concentration and Seroconversion Rates in Solid Tumour and Hematologic Patients following Two Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine, According to Treatment Type.

Participant Group
Treatment Type
Patients
(n)
Anti-S Concentration, BAU/mL Seroconversion Rate per Cutoff, n (%) p-Value
(If < 0.05)
Mean (±SD) Median 35.2 BAU/mL 140.8 BAU/mL 281.6 BAU/mL
Healthy Controls 35 382.4 (9.4) 384 35 (100) 35 (100) 35 (100)
Solid Tumour 76 265.8 (145.7) * 384 64 (84) 56 (74) 45 (59) * < 0.0001
* < 0.01
No systemic therapy 14 315 (156) 381 14 (100) 12 (86) 10 (64)
Cytotoxic chemotherapy + 30 195 (156) */# 154 23 (77) 17 (57) 15 (50)
Immunotherapy alone 14 300 (138) 384 14 (100) 11 (79) 10 (72)
Targeted therapy alone 12 331 (126) 381 11 (92) 10 (83) 10 (83)
Hormonal therapy alone 6 358 (64) 384 6 (100) 6 (100) 5 (83)
Hematologic 40
13
11
16
168.2 (172.9) *
340 (116)
41 (113) */**
117 (144) */**
72
384
4
48
21 (53)
12 (93)
1 (9)
8 (50)
17 (43)
12 (93)
1 (9)
4 (25)
15 (38)
11 (86)
1 (9)
3 (19)
* < 0.0001
*/** < 0.01
*/** < 0.01
No active therapy
Anti-CD20 therapy
Systemic therapy(non-anti-CD20)

* indicates comparison to healthy controls, using one-way ANOVA test with post-hoc Tukey test. ** indicates comparison to no therapy group within the same cancer type, using one-way ANOVA test with post-hoc Tukey test. # p = 0.056 if directly comparing cytotoxic chemotherapy to no therapy, and p = 0.24 when using Tukey test that accounts for multiple comparisons. No statistical differences between each treatment to no systemic therapy in the solid cancer group. + Cytotoxic chemotherapy alone or cytotoxic chemotherapy plus immunotherapy.