Skip to main content
. 2022 Feb 16;16:1355. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2022.1355

Table 2. Antibody titers in patients with cancer following two doses of COVID-19 vaccine.

Study Location Vaccine type Test type Malignancy type Antibody titers, median (IQR) (range)
Solid cancer Haematologic malignancy Healthy controls p value
Massarweh
et al [24]
Israel BTN162b2 Anti-S IgG Solid cancer
1,931 (509–4,386) (0.3–53,088) 7,160 (3,129–11,241) (442–27,568) <0.001
Lim et al [38] UK ChAdOx1 or BTN162b2 Anti-S IgG Lymphoma - 2.5 BAU/mL (95% CI 1.1–5.8) for participants on treatment and 141.8 BAU/mL (75.6–266.0) for participants not on treatment. 2,339 BAU/mL (1,923–2,844) in those who took BNT162b2; 199 BAU/mL (140–282) in those who took ChAdOx1 -
Addeo
et al [31]
USA and Europe mRNA-1273 or BNT162b2
Anti-S IgG Solid and haematologic malignanciesa >2,500 (514–2,500) 832 (24–2,500) - 0.029
Palich et al [23] France BNT162b2
Anti-S IgG Solid cancerb 252 (Roche Elecsys assay); 4,443 Abbott Alinity Assay - 2,517 (Roche Elecsys assay); 13,285 Abbott Alinity assay <0.01 for both assays
Thakkar et al [32] USA mRNA-1273, or BNT162b2 or AD26.COV2.S
Anti-S IgG Solid and haematologic malignanciesc 7,858 2,528 - 0.013
Van Oekelen et al [27] USA mRNA-1273 or BNT162b2
Anti-S IgG Multiple myeloma - 149 (5–7,882 AU/mL) 300 (21–3,335 AU/mL) <0.0001
Pimpinelli et al [21] Italy
BNT162b2
Anti-S IgG
Multiple myeloma and myeloproliferative malignancies - MM: 106.7 AU/mL
MPM: 172.9 AU/mL
353.3 AU/mL MM: 0.003
MPM: 0.049
Herishanu et al [26] Israel BNT162b2 Anti-S IgG CLL - 0.824 U/mL 1,084 U/mL <0.001
Barrière et al [25] France BNT162b2 Anti-S IgG Solid tumours 245.2 UI/mL - 2,517 UI/mL <0.001
Maneikis
et al [28]
Lithuania BNT162b2 Anti-S IgG Haematological malignancies - 6,961 AU/mL 21,395 AU/mL <0.0001
Kearns et al [35] UK BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 Anti-S IgG Immuno compromised patientsd 4,101 (655–10,819 U/mL) 1,011.5
(17.3–3,877 U/mL) in patients with haematologic malignancies and 980 (91.9–5,129 U/mL) in HSCT patientse
11,514 (3,324–23,302 U/mL) -
Parry et al [64] UK BNT162b2 or ChAdOx1 Anti-S IgG CLL - 53 U/mL 3,900 U/mL <0.0001
a

Breast, urologic, gynaecologic, skin, thoracic, gastrointestinal, head and neck, brain and connective tissue cancers. ALL, CLL, CML, DLBCL, follicular lymphoma, MALT lymphoma, T-cell lymphoma/mycosis fungoides, HL, polycythaemia vera, myeloma

b

Breast, digestive, lung, gynaecological, prostate, bladder, pancreas, kidney, upper aero-digestive tract cancers

c

Breast, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, gynaecologic, thoracic, head and neck, skin/musculoskeletal, carcinoma of unknown primary, lymphoid, myeloid and plasma cell malignancies

d

Tumour necrosis factor alpha, IL-2 and granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor

e

Patients who underwent HSCT were analysed separately from patients with haematologic malignancies