{"id":10589,"date":"2025-10-22T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:50:48","slug":"covid-19-vaccines-may-help-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/covid-19-vaccines-may-help-some-cancer-patients-fight-tumors\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mrna-vaccine-cancer-immunotherapy-pfizer-moderna-c632dacabb9208050b399da90630318f\">AP<\/a> The most widely used&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vaccines-covid-shots-fda-kennedy-pfizer-children-9ce19908ae7afb354732aa162fd28532\">COVID-19 vaccines<\/a>&nbsp;may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients \u2013 revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/4c83cc7cc92a430b8c026691e77815c2\">immunotherapy drugs<\/a>&nbsp;lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment, according to preliminary research being reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it had nothing to do with virus infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mrna-kennedy-rfk-jr-covid-flu-51babaaeb003c45473080a52d67d7d72\">the molecule that powers those specific vaccines, mRNA<\/a>, appears to help the immune system respond better to the cutting-edge cancer treatment, concluded researchers from MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP The most widely used&nbsp;COVID-19 vaccines&nbsp;may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients \u2013 revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain&nbsp;immunotherapy drugs&nbsp;lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10590,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}