Cytokine release syndrome-like serum responses after COVID-19 vaccination are frequent and clinically inapparent under cancer immunotherapy.


Journal

Nature cancer
ISSN: 2662-1347
Titre abrégé: Nat Cancer
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101761119

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
09 2022
Historique:
received: 24 12 2021
accepted: 16 05 2022
pubmed: 18 6 2022
medline: 28 9 2022
entrez: 17 6 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Patients with cancer frequently receive immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), which may modulate immune responses to COVID-19 vaccines. Recently, cytokine release syndrome (CRS) was observed in a patient with cancer who received BTN162b2 vaccination under ICI treatment. Here, we analyzed adverse events and serum cytokines in patients with 23 different tumors undergoing (n = 64) or not undergoing (n = 26) COVID-19 vaccination under ICI therapy in a prospectively planned German single-center cohort study (n = 220). We did not observe clinically relevant CRS (≥grade 2) after vaccination (95% CI 0-5.6%; Common Terminology of Adverse Events v.5.0) in this small cohort. Within 4 weeks after vaccination, serious adverse events occurred in eight patients (12.5% 95% CI 5.6-23%): six patients were hospitalized due to events common under cancer therapy including immune related adverse events and two patients died due to conditions present before vaccination. Despite absence of CRS symptoms, a set of pairwise-correlated CRS-associated cytokines, including CXCL8 and interleukin-6 was >1.5-fold upregulated in 40% (95% CI 23.9-57.9%) of patients after vaccination. Hence, elevated cytokine levels are common and not sufficient to establish CRS diagnosis.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35715501
doi: 10.1038/s43018-022-00398-7
pii: 10.1038/s43018-022-00398-7
pmc: PMC9499865
doi:

Substances chimiques

COVID-19 Vaccines 0
Cytokines 0
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors 0
Interleukin-6 0

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1039-1051

Investigateurs

Christiane S Cussigh (CS)
Katharina A Kälber (KA)
Omar Abdelrahim (O)
Elena Busch (E)
Patrick Derigs (P)
Katharina Dischinger (K)
Fouad Mitri (F)
Kerstin Schmidt (K)
Irfan A Bhatti (IA)
Barbara Grün (B)
Nicolas Hohmann (N)
Lena Woydack (L)
Xin-Wen Zhang (XW)
Dyke Ferber (D)
Andreas Mock (A)
Tillmann Pompecki (T)
Timo Schank (T)
Carlo Fremd (C)
Georg M Haag (GM)
Niels Halama (N)
Romy Kirsten (R)
Jessica C Hassel (JC)
Dirk Jäger (D)

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Thomas Walle (T)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. t.walle@dkfz.de.
Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany. t.walle@dkfz.de.
German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany. t.walle@dkfz.de.

Sunanjay Bajaj (S)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Joscha A Kraske (JA)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Thomas Rösner (T)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Christiane S Cussigh (CS)

Department of Dermatology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Katharina A Kälber (KA)

Department of Dermatology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Lisa Jasmin Müller (LJ)

Department of Hematology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

Sophia Boyoung Strobel (SB)

Department of Dermatology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Jana Burghaus (J)

Department of Dermatology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefan M Kallenberger (SM)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Christoph K Stein-Thöringer (CK)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division Microbiome and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Maximilian Jenzer (M)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Antonia Schubert (A)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany.
BioQuant & Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division Signaling and Functional Genomics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Steffen Kahle (S)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Anja Williams (A)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Birgit Hoyler (B)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Lin Zielske (L)

NCT Liquid Biobank, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

Renate Skatula (R)

NCT Liquid Biobank, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefanie Sawall (S)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Mathias F Leber (MF)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Russell Z Kunes (RZ)

Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Johannes Krisam (J)

Institute of Medical Biometry, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.

Carlo Fremd (C)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Division of Gynecological Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

Andreas Schneeweiss (A)

Division of Gynecological Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

Jürgen Krauss (J)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Leonidas Apostolidis (L)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Anne Katrin Berger (AK)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Georg M Haag (GM)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor-Immunity, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Stefanie Zschäbitz (S)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Niels Halama (N)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Translational Immunotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HITRON), Mainz, Germany.

Christoph Springfeld (C)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Romy Kirsten (R)

NCT Liquid Biobank, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg, Germany.

Jessica C Hassel (JC)

Department of Dermatology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.

Dirk Jäger (D)

Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Clinical Cooperation Unit Applied Tumor-Immunity, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Guy Ungerechts (G)

Clinical Cooperation Unit Virotherapy, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Department of Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
CanVirex, Heidelberg, Germany.
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Cancer Therapeutics Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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