Cancer immunotherapy
Subtitle: immune suppression and tumor growth
By: edited by George C. Prendergast, Elizabeth M. Jaffee
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 655
Subjects: Cancer; Immunotherapy; Antineoplastic agents; Therapeutic use; Tumors; Immunological aspects; Neoplasms; Therapy; Antineoplastic Agents; Methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed June 12, 2013).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / George C. Prendergast and Elizabeth M. Jaffee; title: Section 1: Principles of basic immunology; title: Components of the immune system / Amanda Norvell; title: Adaptive immunity: B cells and antibodies / Lauren M.F. Merlo and Laura Mandik-Nayak; title: Adaptive immunity: T cells and cytokines / Jenni Punt; title: Dendritic cells: Antigen processing and presentation / Nancy Luckashenak and Laurence C. Eisenlohr; title: Mucosal immunity / Cathryn Nagler and Taylor Feehley; title: Section 2: Principles of cancer immunobiology; title: Cancer immunoediting: From surveillance to escape / Michele W.L. Teng, Michael H. Kershaw, and Mark J. Smyth.; title: Immunosurveillance: Innate and adaptive antitumor immunity / Kenneth F. May, Jr., Masahisa Jinushi, and Glenn Dranoff; title: Immunological sculpting: Natural killer-cell receptors and ligands / Sarah S. Donatelli and Julie Y. Djeu; title: Th17 cells in cancer / Ende Zhao ... [et.al.]; title: Immune escape: Immunosuppressive networks / Sandra Demaria; title: Section 3: Introduction to cancer therapeutics; title: Principles of cytotoxic chemotherapy / Bradley W. Lash and Paul B. Gilman; title: Pharmacokinetics and safety assessment / Richard A. Westhouse and Bruce D. Car; title: Monoclonal antibodies for cancer therapy and prevention: Paradigm studies in targeting the neu/ERBB2/HER2 oncoprotein / Hongtao Zhang ... [et.al.].; title: Genetic vaccines against cancer: Design, testing and clinical performance / Freda K. Stevenson ... [et.al.]; title: Comprehensive immunomonitoring to guide the development of immunotherapeutic products for cancer / Marij J.P. Welters and Sjoerd H. van der Burg; title: Section 4: Strategies of passive and active immunotherapy; title: Adoptive T-cell therapy: Engineering T-cell receptors / Richard A. Morgan; title: Dendritic cell vaccines: Sipuleucel-T and other approaches / Nicholas M. Durham and Charles G. Drake; title: Antibodies to stimulate host immunity: Lessons from ipilimumab / Margaret K. Callahan, Michael A. Postow, and Jedd D. Wolchok.; title: Recombinant TRICOM-based therapeutic cancer vaccines: Lessons learned / Jeffrey Schlom ... [et.al.]; title: Adjuvant strategies for vaccines / Claire Hearnden and Ed C. Lavelle; title: Section 5: Improving immunotherapeutic responses; title: Epigenetic approaches: Emerging role of histone deacetylase inhibitors in cancer immunotherapy / Eva Sahakian ... [et.al.]; title: Molecular profiling of immunotherapeutic resistance / Davide Bedognetti ... [et.al.]; title: Immune stimulatory features of classical chemotherapy / W. Joost Lesterhuis, Anna K. Nowak, and Richard A. Lake; title: Immunotherapy and cancer therapeutics: A rich partnership / Gang Chen, Elizabeth M. Jaffee, and Leisha A. Emens; title: Section 6: Targeting strategies to defeat immune suppression; title: JAK/STAT signaling in myeloid cells: Targets for cancer immunotherapy / Saul J. Priceman ... [et.al.]; title: Tumor-associated macrophages in cancer growth and progression / Alberto Mantovani .. [et.al.]; title: Tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cells / Suzanne Ostrand-Rosenberg ... [et.al.]; title: HyperAcute vaccines: A novel cancer immunotherapy / Gabriela R. Rossi ... [et.al.]; title: Tumor exosomes and their impact on immunity and cancer progression / Veronica Huber, Paola Filipazzi, and Licia Rivoltini; title: Galectins: Key players in the tumor microenvironment / Victoria Sundblad ... [et.al.]; title: IDO in immune escape: Regulation and therapeutic inhibition / Alexander J. Muller ... [et.al.]; title: IDO pathway: Effect on Foxp3+ Tregs and cancer / David H. Munn amd Andrew L. Mellor; title: Arginase, nitric oxide synthase, and novel inhibitors of L-arginine metabolism in immune modulation / Mariacristina Chioda ... [et.al.].