Cancer and transplant patients can receive a fourth dose against the coronavirus in Peru

The Ministry of Health (Minsa) updated the coronavirus vaccination protocol for people with oncological diseases. According to the document, patients with cancer and TPH transplants can receive a fourth dose against the COVID-19 five months after their third vaccination.

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According to protocolthe Cancer patients who can be inoculated with a fourth vaccine are:

Recently diagnosed with cancer.
In the process of planning the start of treatment.
In active treatment, which includes hormonal therapy, up to six months after completion of cancer treatment.
Transplanted up to two years after TPH or until completion of immunosuppression therapy.

Protocol for the vaccination of people with oncological disease. Photo: Minsa

While those patients with cancer who are more than six months to five years old, unless they have completed cancer treatment, will be inoculated according to the vaccination schedule against COVID-19, in accordance with current regulations, that is, they can receive up to three doses.

It should be noted that the recommended vaccine for cancer patients is that of the American laboratory Pfizer.

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FOURTH DOSE TO OTHER PATIENTS

In an interview with RPP Noticias, the general director of Strategic Intervention in Public Health of the Minsa, Alexis Holguín, indicated that he is evaluating applying a fourth dose to the rest of the population. “Already at this moment a fourth dose is being given to oncology and transplant patients. (…) They require three primary doses and one booster. With the rest of the population it is being studied”, he pointed.

“Here what we need is more scientific evidence to know when to place it and in whom to place it. Because it is not the same to place it after three months or six months or suddenly a little more. The second important point is who, everyone or a special population. That is what is being worked on and looking for more information”he added.

He also recalled that Currently, very few countries are applying a fourth dose to their population.