Cancer Immunotherapy at the Crossroads How Tumors Evade Immunity and What Can Be Done

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Synopsis

Leading investigators and clinicians detail the different mechanisms used by tumors to escape and impair the immune system and then spell out possible clinical strategies to prevent or reverse tumor-induced immune dysfunction. The authors review the mechanisms of immune dysfunction and evasion mechanisms in histologically diverse human tumors, focusing on tumor-induced molecular defects in T cells and antigen-presenting cells (dendritic cells and tumors), that may serve as biomarkers for patient prognosis. They discuss the means by which these immune functions may be protected or restored in order to more effectively support the process of tumor rejection in situ. Cutting-edge techniques are outlined with the capacity to monitor the strength and quality of patients' immune responses using immunocytometry, MHC-peptide tetramers combined with apoptosis assay, ELISPOT assay, and detection of MHC-TAA peptide complexes on tumor cells.

Book details

Edition:
2004
Series:
Current Clinical Oncology
Author:
Ronald M. Bukowski, James H. Finke
ISBN:
9781592597437
Related ISBNs:
9781588291837
Publisher:
Humana Press, Totowa, NJ
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-02-03
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2004
Copyright by:
Springer-Verlag Wien 2012 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Medicine, Nonfiction