COVID-19 vaccine safety checked in cancer immunotherapy patients
NCT ID NCT05025514
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aimed to see if COVID-19 vaccines cause more side effects in cancer patients receiving immunotherapy. Researchers planned to track 125 patients from several hospitals in France, recording any local or systemic side effects. The study was terminated early, so the full results are not available.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- COVID-19 vaccines (BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, Oxford/AstraZeneca, Ad26COV2.S)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that COVID-19 vaccines are safe for cancer patients on immunotherapy, helping guide vaccination recommendations.
- What could go wrong
- The study was terminated early with only 125 participants, so results may be incomplete. It was also observational, so it cannot prove cause and effect.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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125 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Oct 2021
- Finished
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Sep 2022
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
The study population consists of all patients with cancer requiring anti-PD, anti-PDL1 or antiCTLA4 immunotherapy for any tumour (solid, liquid) who have been vaccinated or eligible for vaccination against COVID19 (of any kind, except live, attenuated virus) and treated in the medical oncology departments of the Occitanie region.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient having been vaccinated or eligible for inoculation with one of the available anti-COVID19 vaccines (except live attenuated virus) while they were or are undergoing immunotherapy with anti-PD1, anti-PDL1 or anti-CTLA4 immunotherapy whatever the tumor (solid, liquid) managed within the medical oncology services of the Occitanie region. * Patients affiliated to or beneficiaries of a health insurance scheme. * Patients who have received written and oral information about the study and who have no objection to participation. * Adult patients (≥ 18 years). Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have been vaccinated with a live attenuated vaccine. * Patients with a contraindication to inclusion (including hypersensitivity to the active substance or to one of the excipients, COVID+ PCR test in the last 3 months). * Minor patients, pregnant women, parturients, nursing mothers, persons in nursing mothers, persons in emergency situations, persons unable to persons unable to express their consent and persons under persons under court protection, subguardianship or subguardianship may not be included in this research. * Patients in an exclusion period determined by another study. * Patients for whom it is impossible to give clear information. * Patients who have expressed an objection to participating in the study.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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CH d'Auch
Auch, 32008, France
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CH de Cahors
Cahors, France
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CHU de Nîmes
Nîmes, Gard, 30029, France
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Centre Hospitalier d'Albi
Albi, France
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Clinique des Cèdres - Capio
Cornebarrieu, 31700, France
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