Name: The Biggest Questions Around COVID-19 Vaccines & Cancer
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pretty much  everything has gotten put on hold

stuff like preventative medical care  has gotten pushed to the back seat

and after that experience,  all I could think about during

that all would have been  if we'd had to go through it

at the point of diagnosis.  Because it was difficult enough

to get seen by a doctor  in pre-pandemic times.

But regular checkups and cancer screenings

drastically dipped  during the early months of the pandemic,

as health care systems  contended with the virus

worry about  is that these delays in screening

takes more away  from a patient's quality of life.

And that's on  top of an existing information gap

Like, many people don't actually know how often

they should be screened for things  like breast and cervical cancer.

-One of the reasons  that mortality from cancer

has been declining in the United States  is because we've been

continuously improving some of our cancer  screenings.

The best example of  this is in cervical cancer.

cervical cancer  went from being one of the leading

have bounced back to pre-pandemic levels.  And catching any cancer

early is absolutely essential to ensure  a better outcome for the patient.

But it's especially true  in the time of COVID.

for those who have a blood cancer  like leukemia or lymphoma.

actually don't have screening options  like a mammogram

for breast cancer  or a pap smear for cervical cancer.

all pathogens, bacteria, funguses, viruses,

anything that can attack your body  and make you sick.

When you are a patient  with leukemia or lymphoma,

the number  and function of those white blood cells.

has shown that those with blood cancer  in particular,

are at much higher risk of longer  and more severe COVID-19

illness than people with a kind of cancer

we call the antibodies in response  to infection.

So patients  who either the malignancy itself

or the treatment for the malignancy  knocks down those cells

-So what does this mean  for blood cancer patients

when it comes to getting the COVID-19 vaccine?

Luckily, researchers have been studying  exactly this.

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The Biggest Questions Around COVID-19 Vaccines & Cancer

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