Viral therapy of human cancers
By: edited by Joseph G. Sinkovics, Joseph C. Horvath.
Contributors: Sinkovics, Joseph G., 1924-; Horvath, Joseph C.
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 829
Subjects: Viruses -- Therapeutic use; Cancer -- Treatment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Progressive development of viral therapy of human cancers: a personal narrative account; title: New biological therapeutics: competitors or collaborators of viral therapy for human cancers; title: Measles virus: improving natural oncolytic properties by genetic engineering; title: Antitumor immune memory and its activation for control of residual tumor cells and improvement of patients survival: a new concept derived from translational research with the virus-modified tumor vaccine ATV-NDV; title: Newcastle disease virus: its oncolytic properties; title: Influenza a viruses with deletions in the NSI gene-a rational approach to develop oncolytic viruses; title: Vesicular stomatitis: an oncolytic virus that exploits tumors-speciic defects in the interferon pathway; title: Parvoviruses as anti-cancer agents; title: Newcastle disease virus oncoysate in the management of stage III malignant melanoma; title: Vaccinia viral lysates in immunotherapy of melanoma; title: Fusogenic oncolytic herpers simplex viruses for therapy of solid tumors; title: Poliovirus recombinants against malignant glioma; title: Oncolytic viruses that depend on loss of RB or p53.