Principles of Cancer Biotherapy

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Oldham, Robert K. (Editor), Dillman, Robert O. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:5th ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2289-9
Table of Contents:
  • Cancer biotherapy: general principles
  • The pathogenesis of cancer metastasis: relevance to therapy
  • Developmental therapeutics and the design of clinical trials
  • Recombinant proteins and genomics in cancer therapy
  • Current concepts in immunology
  • Therapeutic approaches to cancer-associated immune suppression
  • Cancer vaccines
  • Cytokines
  • Interferons: therapy for cancer
  • Monoclonal antibody therapy
  • Immunotoxins
  • Drug Immunoconjugates
  • Targeted radionuclide therapy of cancer
  • Stem cell/bone marrow transplantation as biotherapy
  • Cellular immunotherapy (CI), where have we been and where are we going?
  • Growth and differentiation factors as cancer therapeutics
  • Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor: biology and clinical potential
  • Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
  • Cancer gene therapy
  • Regulatory process for approval of biologicals for cancer therapy
  • Cancer biotherapy: 2009 disease-related activity
  • Biological therapy of melanoma
  • Biological therapy of genitourinary cancer
  • Biological therapy of colon cancer
  • Biological therapy of breast cancer
  • Biological therapy of lung cancer
  • Biological therapy of B and T cell lymphoproliferative disorders
  • Biological therapy of multiple myeloma
  • Biological therapy of squamous cell cancers of the head and neck
  • Biological therapy of glioblastoma
  • Speculations for 2009 and beyond.