Cancer immunotherapy
Subtitle: immune suppression and tumor growth
By: [edited by] George Prendergast, Elizabeth M. Jaffee.
Contributors: Prendergast, George C.; Jaffee, Elizabeth M.
Publisher: Academic Press; Academic Press/Elsevier
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780123725516
Subjects: Cancer -- Immunotherapy; Antineoplastic agents -- Therapeutic use; Tumors -- Immunological aspects; Neoplasms -- therapy; Antineoplastic Agents -- therapeutic use; Immunotherapy -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cancer immunoediting : from immune surveillance to immune escape / Ryungsa Kim; title: Immunosurveillance : innate and adaptive anti-tumor immunity / Masahisa Jinushi and Glenn Dranoff; title: Cytokine regulation of immune tolerance to tumors / Ming O. Li and Richard A. Flavell; title: Immunological sculpting : natural killer cell receptors and ligands / David A. Sallman and Julie Y. Djeu; title: Immune escape : immunosuppressive networks / Shuang Wei, Alfred Chang, and Weiping Zou; title: Cytotoxic chemotherapy in clinical treatment of cancer / Rajesh Thirumaran, George C. Prendergast, and Paul B. Gilman; title: Targeted therapeutics in cancer treatment / Colin D. Weekes and Manuel Hidalgo; title: Concepts in pharmacology and toxicology / Richard A. Westhouse and Bruce D. Car; title: Cancer immunotherapy : challenges and opportunities / Andrew J. Lepisto, John R. McKolanis, and Olivera J. Finn; title: Cancer vaccines / Freda K. Stevenson ... [et al.]; title: Immunotherapy and cancer therapeutics : why partner? / Leisha A. Emens and Elizabeth M. Jaffee; title: Immune stimulatory features of classical chemotherapy / Robbert G. van der Most, Anna K. Nowak, and Richard A. Lake; title: Dendritic cells and co-inhibitory molecules / Drew Pardoll; title: Regulatory T cells in tumor immunity : role of toll-like receptors / Rong-Fu Wang; title: Tumor-associated macrophages in cancer growth and progression / Alberto Mantovani, Paola Allavena, and Antonio Sica; title: Tumor-associated myeloid-derived suppressor cells / Stephanie K. Bunt ... [et al.]; title: Programmed death ligand-1 and galectin-1 : pieces in the puzzle of tumor immune escape / Gabriel A. Rabinovich and Thomas F. Gajewski; title: IDO in immune escape : regulation and therapeutic inhibition / Alexander J. Muller and George C. Prendergast; title: Arginase, nitric oxide synthase, and novel inhibitors of L-arginine metabolism in immune modulation / Susanna Mandruzzato, Simone Mocellin, and Vincenzo Bronte.