Immune-based cancer treatment
Subtitle: the T lymphocyte response
By: Michael A. Alexander
Publisher: CRC Press; Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL; Enfield, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781578087037
Subjects: Immunology; Cancer; T cells; Neoplasms; Immunological aspects; Immunotherapy; T-Lymphocytes; Therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Which cells control the anti-cancer T cell immune response?; title: Antigen presentation; title: T cells and cancer cells : components of immune-based anti-cancer therapy; title: Anti-cancer vaccines : new approaches; title: How and why do we get cancer and can immune-based anti-cancer therapy save us?; title: Immunotherapeutic approaches to the treatment of leukemia; title: Cancer-induced autoimmunity; title: Can we solve the cancer stem cell program and cure cancer using T cell-based immunotherapy?; title: Translational immunology and its impact on anti-cancer T cell immunity and the development of immunotherapeutic treatments for cancer; title: Dendritic cells, immunotherapy, and the anti-cancer T cell response; title: Regulatory T cells, dendritic cells, and the success of immunotherapeutic treatments for cancer; title: NK cells and their role in the development of immune-based anti-cancer therapy; title: How cancer cells influence the anti-cancer T cell imune response and why this is a problem during the immunotherapeutic treatment of cancer; title: The T cell anti-cancer response, T cell regulation, and immunotherapy of neural crest cancers; title: The immunological hole : will we fall in?