South Asian Declaration-Consensus Guidelines for COVID-19 Vaccination in Cancer Patients

Raja Thirumalairaj; Purvish M Parikh; Amit Agarwal; Randeep Singh; Arvind Krishnamurthy; Sharad S Desai; Amita Maheshwari; Prashant Mehta; Abdul Ghafur; S P Somashekhar; Ahamed Iqbal; Dhairyasheel N Savant; Syed Md Akram Hussain; Amit Bhatt; Tashi Wangdi; Jyoti Bajpai; Anantbhushan A Ranade; K Govind Babu; Ajay Bapna; Ghanshyam Biswas; Hemant Malhotra; M Vamshi Krishna; Rajendra Prasad Baral; Rajesh Vashishtha; Ahmad Javid Safi; Sharmila Agarwal; J P Agarwal; Krishna Kumar Rathnam; P N Mohapatra; Rajeev Vijay Kumar; Senthil Rajappa; Sewanti Atul Limaye; Amish Vora; Vijay A P Reddy; Bhavesh B Parekh; G K Rath

doi:10.1055/s-0041-1731909

South Asian Declaration-Consensus Guidelines for COVID-19 Vaccination in Cancer Patients

South Asian J Cancer. 2021 Jan;10(1):3-8. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1731909. Epub 2021 Aug 20.

Authors

Raja Thirumalairaj¹, Purvish M Parikh², Amit Agarwal³, Randeep Singh⁴, Arvind Krishnamurthy⁵, Sharad S Desai⁶, Amita Maheshwari⁷, Prashant Mehta⁸, Abdul Ghafur⁹, S P Somashekhar¹⁰, Ahamed Iqbal¹¹, Dhairyasheel N Savant¹², Syed Md Akram Hussain¹³, Amit Bhatt¹⁴, Tashi Wangdi¹⁵, Jyoti Bajpai¹⁶, Anantbhushan A Ranade¹⁴, K Govind Babu¹⁷, Ajay Bapna¹⁸, Ghanshyam Biswas¹⁹, Hemant Malhotra²⁰, M Vamshi Krishna²¹, Rajendra Prasad Baral²², Rajesh Vashishtha²³, Ahmad Javid Safi²⁴, Sharmila Agarwal²⁵, J P Agarwal²⁶, Krishna Kumar Rathnam²⁷, P N Mohapatra²⁸, Rajeev Vijay Kumar²⁹, Senthil Rajappa³⁰, Sewanti Atul Limaye³¹, Amish Vora³², Vijay A P Reddy³³, Bhavesh B Parekh³⁴, G K Rath³⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Center, Teynampet, Chennai, India.
² Department of Oncology, Integrated Academic Society of Clinical Oncology, Mumbai Oncocare Centers, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
³ Department of Medical Oncology, BLK Superspecilaity Hospital, Delhi, India.
⁴ Department of Molecular Oncology Society, Narayana Health, Delhi, India.
⁵ Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute (WIA), Chennai, India.
⁶ Department of Surgical Oncology, Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital, Miraj, Maharashtra, India.
⁷ Divison of Gynecologic Oncology, Department of Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre and Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
⁸ Department of Medical Oncology/Hematoncology/BMT, Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, Faridabad, India.
⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Apollo Cancer Institute, Chennai, India.
¹⁰ Department of Surgical Oncology, MHEPL, Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Center, Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, India.
¹¹ Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Teaching Hospital, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka.
¹² Department of Surgical Oncology, Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
¹³ Department of Radiotherapy, Square Oncology and Radiotherapy Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
¹⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Avinash Cancer Clinic, Pune, India.
¹⁵ Oncology Department, JDWNR Hospital and KGUMS, Thimphu, Bhutan.
¹⁶ Department of Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
¹⁷ Department of Medical and Pediatric Oncology, St. Johns Medical College and Hospital, HCG Hospitals, Bangalore, India.
¹⁸ Department of Medical Oncology, BMCHRC, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
¹⁹ Department of Medical Oncology, Sparsh Hospital and Sum Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
²⁰ Department of Medical Oncology, Sri Ram Cancer Center, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
²¹ Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Institute of Oncology, AIG Hospitals, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, India.
²² Department of Medical Oncology, Norvic International Hospital and Om Hospital and Research Center, Kathmandu, Nepal.
²³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Bathinda, Punjab, India.
²⁴ Afghanistan Cancer Foundation and Covid-19 Control Command Centre, Kabil, Afghanistan.
²⁵ Department of Radiotherapy, Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
²⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
²⁷ Department of Medical Oncology, Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre, Madurai, India.
²⁸ Department of Medical Oncology, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
²⁹ Department of Oncology, BGS Gleneagles Global Hospital, Bangalore, India.
³⁰ Department of Medical Oncology, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Hyderabad, India.
³¹ Department of Oncology and Oncology Research, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
³² Department of Oncology, H.O.P.E. Oncology Cancer Clinic, PSRI Hospital, New Delhi, India.
³³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Apollo Cancer Institute, Hyderabad, India.
³⁴ Department of Oncology, Shalby Cancer and Research Institute, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.
³⁵ National Cancer Center, Delhi, India.

Abstract

We provide the South Asian Declaration, containing the consensus guidelines for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination in cancer patients.

Keywords: Covaxin; Covishield; Sputnik V; immunity; pandemic; recommendations; vaccine.

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