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Title Immunotherapy of cancer / edited by Mary L. Disis
Published Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 516 pages) : illustrations
Series Cancer drug discovery and development
Cancer drug discovery and development.
Contents Discovery of target molecules for cancer immunotherapy by genetic and bioinformatic approaches -- Current strategies for the identification of immunogenic epitopes of tumor antigens -- Current and future role of natural-killer cells in cancer immunotherapy -- The role of immune monitoring in evaluating cancer immunotherapy -- Statistical analysis of immune response assays -- DNA vaccines for cancer immunotherapy -- Dendritic cells -- Different approaches to dendritic cell-based cancer immunotherapy -- Anti-idiotype antibody vaccines for the immunotherapy of cancer -- Autologous tumor-derived heat shock protein vaccine as a new paradigm for individualized cancer therapeutics -- Tumor-reactive T-cells for adoptive immunotherapy -- T-cell adoptive immunotherapy of cancer: from translational models to clinical significance -- Retroviral-mediated gene transfer for engineering tumor-reactive T-cells -- Harnessing the potential of graft-vs-tumor -- Tumor-induced immune suppression and immune escape: mechanisms and impact on the outcome of immunotherapy of malignant disease -- The tumor microenvironment: regulation of antitumor immunity and implications for immunotherapy -- Manipulation of lymphocyte homeostasis for enhancing antitumor immunity -- Fast-lane evolution in the tumor microenvironment -- Manipulating immunological checkpoints to maximize antitumor immunity -- Interleukin-2 as cancer therapy -- Biological and clinical properties of the type 1 interferons -- Promising g [gamma]-chain cytokines for cancer immunotherapy: interleukins-7, -15, and -21 as vaccine adjuvants, growth factors -- The therapeutic use of natural-killer cells in hematological malignancies -- Antibody therapy for solid tumors -- Antibody therapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma -- Approaches to in vivo imaging of cancer immunotherapy -- Design issues for early-stage clinical trials for cancer vaccines -- Monoclonal antibody therapy for cancer
Summary Expert bench and clinical scientists join forces to concurrently review both the state-of-the-art in tumor immunology and its clinical translation into promising practical treatments. The authors explain in each chapter the scientific basis behind such therapeutic agents as monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, vaccines, and T-cells, and illustrate their clinical manipulation to combat cancer. Additional chapters address statistical analysis - both of clinical trials and assay evaluations - methods for the discovery of antigens, adoptive T cell therapy, and adaptive and innate immunity. The challe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cancer -- Immunotherapy.
Antineoplastic agents -- Design
Immunotherapy.
Neoplasms -- immunology
Neoplasms -- therapy
Antineoplastic Agents -- immunology
Vaccines -- immunology
Immunotherapy
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Cancer.
Antineoplastic agents -- Design.
Neoplasms -- immunology.
Antineoplastic Agents -- immunology.
Immunotherapy.
Vaccines -- immunology.
Cancer -- Immunotherapy.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Immunotherapy
Antineoplastic agents -- Design
Cancer -- Immunotherapy
Immuntherapie
Krebs Medizin
Form Electronic book
Author Disis, Mary L
LC no. 2005017065
ISBN 9781597450119
1597450111
1588295648
9781588295644