Principles of cancer biotherapy
By: edited by Robert K. Oldham.
Contributors: Oldham, Robert K.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 684
Subjects: Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use; Biological Products -- therapeutic use; Immunotherapy; Neoplasms -- immunology; Neoplasms -- therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer biotherapy: general principles.; title: The pathogenesis of cancer metastasis: relevance to biotherapy.; title: Developmental therapeutics and the design of clinical trials.; title: Recombinant proteins and genomics in cancer therapy.; title: Current concepts in immunology.; title: Therapeutic approaches to cancer-associated immune suppression.; title: Cancer vaccines.; title: Cytokines.; title: Intererons: therapy for cancer.; title: Monoclonal antibody therapy.; title: Immunotoxins.; title: Drug immunoconjugates.; title: Radiolabeled antibodies for the management of metastatic cancer.; title: Stem-cell/bone-marrow transplantation as biotherapy.; title: Recent advances in the cellular immunotherapy of human cancer.; title: Growth and differentiation factors as cancer therapeutics.; title: Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: biology and clinical potential.; title: Biochemical purification and molecular and biologic characterization.; title: Cancer gene therapy.; title: Cancer biotherapy: 1996 disease-related activity.; title: Speculations for 2003 and beyond.