Cancer vaccines and tumor immunity /

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Imprint:Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008.
Description:xvi, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6833693
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Other authors / contributors:Orentas, Rimas.
Hodge, James W.
Johnson, Bryon D.
ISBN:9780470074749 (cloth)
0470074744 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors
  • Foreword: Cancer Vaccines and Cancer Immunotherapy: A New Paradigm
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Cancer Vaccines: Progress and Promise
  • II. Adjuvant Therapy: Enhancing the Endogenous Immune Response
  • 2. Fully Synthetic Carboyhydrate-Based Antitumor Vaccines
  • 3. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Immunotherapy of Genitourinary Cancer
  • 4. Stimulation of Toll-Like Receptor 9 for Enhancing Vaccination
  • III. Antigen-Specific Therapy: Novel Presentation of Peptide and Protein Antigens
  • 5. Polyepitope Vaccines
  • 6. Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapy: HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer as a Model System
  • 7. Poxviral Vectors for Cancer Vaccines: State of the Art
  • 8. Immunotherapeutic Strategies Against Cancer Using Listeria monocytogenes as a Vector for Tumor Antigens
  • 9. Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity with Yeast-Based Cancer Immunotherapy
  • IV. Cell-Based Therapy: Using Cancer Cells as a Means to Induce Specific Tumor Immunity
  • 10. Allogeneic Whole-Cell Vaccines
  • 11. Jump-Starting Tumor Immunity with Breast Cancer Therapeutics
  • 12. T-Regulatory Cell Manipulation in Tumor Immunotherapy
  • 13. Tumor Vaccination After Autologous HSCT: What Has Been Learned from Experimental Models
  • 14. Vaccines in the Setting of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • 15. Intratumor Generation of Vigorous Antitumor Immune Responses
  • 16. Cancer Immunotherapy: Untapping the Potential of Costimulatory Molecules Beyond CTLA-4
  • V. Defining Effective Clinical Responses
  • 17. Advances in Immune Monitoring Strategies for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy
  • 18. Immune Evaluation of Cancer Vaccines
  • Index