{"id":4750,"date":"2021-12-13T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/?page_id=4750"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:29:10","slug":"covid-vaccines-for-people-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/coronavirus-covid-19-latest-information-and-advice\/covid-vaccines-for-people-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid vaccines for people with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who might have been immunosuppressed at the time of their first two vaccine doses are eligible to receive a <strong>third primary dose<\/strong>. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People diagnosed with blood cancers<\/li>\n<li>People who have received stem cell transplants<\/li>\n<li>People who had received immunosuppressive chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the last 6 months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third dose should be given at least 8 weeks after the second dose, with special attention paid to current or planned immunosuppressive therapies.<\/p>\n<p>People who have had a 3rd primary dose due to immunosuppression are now recommended to have a 4th dose (booster) after three months.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/20211221_FAQs.pdf\">Omicron COVID-19 wave FAQ&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/VaccineSchedule-Nov2021.pdf\">Covid Vaccine Schedule November 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/news.cancerresearchuk.org\/2021\/12\/10\/covid-19-vaccine-and-cancer-latest-updates\/\">CRUK latest Covid vaccine update<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macmillan.org.uk\/coronavirus\/vaccine#coronavirus_covid-19_vaccine_update_for_cancer_patients\">Macmillan Covid vaccine update<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who might have been immunosuppressed at the time of their first two vaccine doses are eligible to receive a third primary dose. This includes: People diagnosed with blood cancers People who have received stem cell transplants People who had received immunosuppressive chemotherapy or radiotherapy in the last 6 months The third dose should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":2873,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4856,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4750\/revisions\/4856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northerncanceralliance.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}