Cancer Immunotherapy : Immune Suppression and Tumor Growth.

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There has been major growth in understanding immune suppression mechanisms and its relationship to cancer progression and therapy. This book highlights emerging new principles of immune suppression that drive cancer and it offers radically new ideas about how therapy can be improved by attacking the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Prendergast, George C.
Other Authors: Jaffee, Elizabeth M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Burlington : Elsevier, 2007.
Subjects:
Cancer > Immunotherapy.
Antineoplastic agents > Therapeutic use.
Tumors > Immunological aspects.
Neoplasms > therapy
Antineoplastic Agents > therapeutic use
Immunotherapy > methods
Cancer > Immunothérapie.
Anticancéreux > Emploi en thérapeutique.
Tumeurs > Immunologie.
Antineoplastic agents > Therapeutic use
Cancer > Immunotherapy
Tumors > Immunological aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:There has been major growth in understanding immune suppression mechanisms and its relationship to cancer progression and therapy. This book highlights emerging new principles of immune suppression that drive cancer and it offers radically new ideas about how therapy can be improved by attacking these principles. Following work that firmly establishes immune escape as an essential trait of cancer, recent studies have now defined specific mechanisms of tumoral immune suppression. It also demonstrates how attacking tumors with molecular targeted therapeutics or traditional chemotherapeutic drugs.
Physical Description:1 online resource (429 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780080521855
0080521851
1281020451
9781281020451

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