Editorial Open Access
Volume 3 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Pharmacol.3.020
COVID-19 Disease and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Patients with Cancer
Daniel A. King1, Jeffrey Chi2, Shreya Prasad Goyal2, Muhammad Wasif Saif2,*
- 1Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- 2Northwell Health Cancer Institute and Feinstein Institute of Research, Lake Success, NY, USA
Corresponding Author
M. Wasif Saif, wsaif@northwell.edu
Received Date: February 17, 2021
Accepted Date: March 01, 2021
King DA, Chi J, Goyal SP, Saif MW. COVID-19 Disease and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Patients with Cancer. Arch Pharmacol Ther. 2021; 3(1):5-9.
Copyright: © 2021 King DA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords
COVID-19, Cancer patients, Immunosuppressed, Infection
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