Cancer Immunology - Cancer Immunotherapy for Organ-Specific Tumors

Cancer Immunology is intended as an up-to-date, clinically relevant review of cancer immunology and immunotherapy. This volume focuses on the immunopathology and immunotherapy of organ cancers in detail. It clearly explains their immunology and describes novel immunotherapy for specific cancers, including pediatric solid tumors, hematologic malignancies, gastrointestinal tumors, skin cancers, bone and connective tissue tumors, central nervous system tumors, lung cancers, genitourinary tract tumors and breast cancers. In so doing, it builds on the previous two volumes in Cancer Immunology , placing basic knowledge on tumor immunology and immunotherapy into a clinical perspective with the aim of educating clinicians on advances in cancer immunology and the most recent approaches in the immunotherapy of various tumors. This translational, clinically oriented book will be of special value to clinical immunologists, hematologists and oncologists.

List of contents

Specific Organ Tumors: General Considerations On Immunotherapy.- Vaccination Of Human Solid Tumors: Recent Progress In The Clinical Setting.- Immunotherapy For Pediatric Solid Tumors.- Immunopathology Of Hematological Cancers And Immunotherapy Of Leukemia And Multiple Myeloma.- Immunopathology Of Lymphoma And Immunotherapy Of Hodgkin's Disease And Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.- Cancer-Testis Antigens As Targets For The Immunotherapy Of Hematological Malignancies.- Tumor Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Gastrointestinal Tract Cancers.- Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Colorectal Cancer.- Immunopathology Of Hepatobiliary Tumors And Immunotherapy Of Liver Cancers.- Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Pancreatic Tumors.- Immunology Of Cutaneous Tumors And Immunotherapy For Melanoma.- Immunopathology Of Head And Neck Tumors And Immunotherapy Of Squamous Cell Carcinoma.- Immunopathology And Immunotherapy Of Oral Cancers.- Immunopathology Of Bone And Connective Tissue Cancers And Immunotherapy Of Sarcomas.- Immunopathology Of Central Nervous System Cancers And Immunotherapy Of Brain Tumors.- Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Pulmonary Tumors.- Immunopathology Of Urinary System Cancers And Immunotherapy Of Renal And Bladder Cancers.- Immunopathology Of Cancers Of Male And Female Genitalia Organs And Immunotherapy Of Cervical And Prostate Cancer.- Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Ovarian Cancer.- Revisiting Immunology For Breast Cancer.- Immunology And Immunotherapy Of Graft Versus Host Disease.

About the author

Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Health Services in 2002 and subsequently obtained MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also spent a short-term fellowship of Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Since 2010, Dr. Rezaei has worked at the Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences; he is also the Chief Executive Director of the Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Tehran and a co-founder and Deputy President of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. In addition, Dr. Rezaei is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Infection and Immunity, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield. Dr. Rezaei has already been the Director of more than 50 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Dr. Rezaei is an editorial assistant or board member for more than 20 international journals. He has published more than 300 articles in international scientific journals and edited ten further books.

Summary

Cancer Immunology is intended as an up-to-date, clinically relevant review of cancer immunology and immunotherapy. This volume focuses on the immunopathology and immunotherapy of organ cancers in detail. It clearly explains their immunology and describes novel immunotherapy for specific cancers, including pediatric solid tumors, hematologic malignancies, gastrointestinal tumors, skin cancers, bone and connective tissue tumors, central nervous system tumors, lung cancers, genitourinary tract tumors and breast cancers. In so doing, it builds on the previous two volumes in Cancer Immunology, placing basic knowledge on tumor immunology and immunotherapy into a clinical perspective with the aim of educating clinicians on advances in cancer immunology and the most recent approaches in the immunotherapy of various tumors. This translational, clinically oriented book will be of special value to clinical immunologists, hematologists and oncologists.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nim Rezaei (Editor), Nima Rezaei (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9783662513842
• ISBN: 978-3-662-51384-2
• No. of pages: 488
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 255 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 1109 g
• Illustrations: XLIII, 488 p. 48 illus., 44 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Onkologie, B, Medicine, Immunologie, Immunology, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Oncology