Articles

Vaccination recommendations for patients with solid tumours in 2024–2025 in Belgium

BJMO - volume 19, issue 2, march 2025

W. Lybaert MD, C. Jacobs MD, C. Fontaine MD, L. Mortier MD, S. Derijcke MD, T. Wessels MD, A. Aerssens MD

SUMMARY

In recent years, our armamentarium for oncological diseases has rapidly evolved; treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, hormonal treatments, immunotherapy, and recently the antibody-drug conjugates (ADC). All these treatments have more or less consequences for the immune system of our patients, above the cancer itself, which causes a state of immunosuppression.

(BELG J MED ONCOL 2025;19(2):61–62)

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