Immunotherapy of Cancer
Mary L. . Ed(S): Disis
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Description for Immunotherapy of Cancer
Hardback. This book provides a general background as well as an overview and update of the use of cancer immunotherapy. Aside from highlighting new advances and directions in cancer immunotherapy; also covered are the most common forms of cancer immunotherapy, challenges in clinical trial design and the need for biomarkers of response. Editor(s): Disis, Mary L. Series: Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. Num Pages: 516 pages, 52 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MJCL; MJCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Expert bench and clinical scientists join forces to concurrently review both the state-of-the-art in tumor immunology and its clinical translation into promising practical treatments. The authors explain in each chapter the scientific basis behind such therapeutic agents as monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, vaccines, and T-cells, and illustrate their clinical manipulation to combat cancer. Additional chapters address statistical analysis-both of clinical trials and assay evaluations-methods for the discovery of antigens, adoptive T cell therapy, and adaptive and innate immunity. The challenges in clinical trial design, the need for biomarkers of response-such as novel imaging techniques and immunologic monitoring-and the new advances ... Read more
Expert bench and clinical scientists join forces to concurrently review both the state-of-the-art in tumor immunology and its clinical translation into promising practical treatments. The authors explain in each chapter the scientific basis behind such therapeutic agents as monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, vaccines, and T-cells, and illustrate their clinical manipulation to combat cancer. Additional chapters address statistical analysis-both of clinical trials and assay evaluations-methods for the discovery of antigens, adoptive T cell therapy, and adaptive and innate immunity. The challenges in clinical trial design, the need for biomarkers of response-such as novel imaging techniques and immunologic monitoring-and the new advances ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
Series
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development
Number of Pages
516
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9781588295644
SKU
V9781588295644
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Immunotherapy of Cancer
From the reviews: "Immunotherapy of Cancer provides in 28 chapters a comprehensive overview of experimental and clinical achievements in tumor immunology. Each chapter is designed to give the reader the scientific basis behind the discussed therapy and outline basic theory, as well as practical treatment applications. … The book belongs to the successful series of ... Read more