Vaccinated patients with blood cancers are at higher risk of breakthrough COVID than other cancers, study says

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Researchers found COVID-19 vaccines protect most cancer patients but not as protective in those with hematological cancers

Vaccinated Patients with blood cancer may have a"higher and widely varied risk" of breakthrough infections of COVID, according to a published study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.leukemia, multiple myeloma and lymphoma, were at a higher risk of breakthrough COVID," and"those with blood cancers had a greater risk than solid cancers," the researchers stated in a release sent to Fox News about the study.

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But at far less risk of death, then unvaxed.

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