Progress in cancer immunotherapy / Shuren Zhang, editor.
"Thisbook provides readers an extensive overview of recent progress in basicand clinical research on cancer immunotherapy. Thanks to rapid advances inmolecular biology and immunology, it has become increasingly evident thatcancer growth is influenced by host immune responses. With the success o...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2016.
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| Series: | Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;
v. 909. |
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "Thisbook provides readers an extensive overview of recent progress in basicand clinical research on cancer immunotherapy. Thanks to rapid advances inmolecular biology and immunology, it has become increasingly evident thatcancer growth is influenced by host immune responses. With the success of anumber of clinical trials, immunotherapy has become a promising treatmentmodality of cancer. This book covers five major topics, including monoclonalantibodies, biological response modifiers, cancer vaccines, adoptive cellulartherapy and oncolytic viruses. It also examines the combination of differentimmune strategies as well as the combination of immunotherapy with othertreatments to increase anti-tumor effects. Throughthecomprehensive discussion of the topic, the book sheds valuable new light on thetreatment of tumors."--Publisher's website. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations (some colour). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9401775559 9789401775557 |
| ISSN: | 0065-2598 ; |