Cancer immunotherapy at the crossroads : how tumors evade immunity and what can be done /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Finke, James H., 1944-, Bukowski, Ronald M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2004]
Series:Current clinical oncology (Totowa, N.J.)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • HLA class I antigen-processing machinery and HLA class I antigen-derived peptide-complex defects in tumor-cell escape
  • Immune defects in T cells from cancer patients : parallels in infectious diseases
  • Malfunction of the dendritic cell system in cancer
  • CD4+T-cell-mediated immunity to cancer
  • Immunological ignorance in cancer
  • The role of receptor-mediated apoptosis in T-cell dysfunction
  • Alterations in T-cell signaling pathways and increased sensitivity to apoptosis
  • The role of tumor gangliosides in the immune dysfunction of cancer
  • Interleukin-10-induced immune suppression in cancer
  • Accentuating tumor immunity through costimulation : a detailed analysis of OX40 engagement and CTLA-4 blockade
  • Optimizing T-cell adoptive immunotherapy to overcome tumor evasion
  • Tumor resistance to apoptosis : mechanisms of evasion and implications for radiation and chemotherapeutic strategies
  • The development and reversal of T-cell tolerance in cancer patients receiving peptide-based vaccines
  • Altered signaling in T lymphocytes of patients with cancer : a biomarker of prognosis?
  • Allogenic hematopoietic blood-cell transplantation as immunotherapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma
  • Immune defects in patients suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Immune dysfunction in classical Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Lung cancer and immune dysfunction
  • Primary malignant brain tumors : immune defects and immune evasion