Overview

At the time of the first edition of Principles of Cancer Biotherapy in 1987, this book represented the first comprehensive textbook on biological therapy. In 1991, when the second edition was published, there was still some doubt on the part of many oncologists and cancer researchers as to the therapeutic value of these new approaches. By 2003 and the fourth edition, it was generally agreed that biopharmaceuticals were producing major opportunities for new cancer therapies. Cancer biotherapy has now truly matured into the fourth modality of cancer treatment. This fifth revised edition describes the tremendous progress that has been made in recent years using biologicals in cancer treatment. This book summarizes an evolving science and a rapidly changing medical practice in biotherapy. In this new millennium, it is now possible to envision a much more diversified system of cancer research and treatment that will afford greater opportunities for a patient’s personalized cancer treatment. This was first envisioned in the 1987 initial edition of this textbook and is now a “new” and popular approach to cancer treatment. Some forms of cancer biotherapy use the strategy of tumor stabilization and control through continued biological therapy, akin to the use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes. This textbook illustrates new methods of thinking and new strategies for control of cancer. It is always difficult to move from past dogma to future opportunity, but this fifth edition of Principles of Cancer Biotherapy illustrates why it is so important to the patients for researchers and clinicians to explore and quickly apply these new opportunities in cancer biotherapy.

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Author:   Robert K. Oldham ,  Robert O. Dillman
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 5th ed. 2009
Weight:   2.596kg
ISBN:  

9789401776257

ISBN 10:   9401776253
Pages:   742
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Cancer Biotherapy: General Principles; Oldham 2. The Pathogenesis of Cancer Metastasis: Relevance to therapy; Kim, Baker, Kitadai, Nakamura, Kuwai, Sasaki, Langley, Fidler 3. Developmental Therapeutics and the Design of Clinical Trials; Oldham 4. Recombinant Proteins and Genomics in Cancer Therapy; Mehta, Ozpolat, Gohil, Aggerwal 5. Current Concepts in Immunology; Oldham 6. Therapeutic Approaches to Cancer-Associated Immune Suppression; Oldham 7. Cancer Vaccines; Foon, Safa 8. Cytokines; Lewko, Oldham 9. Interferons: Therapy in Cancer; Goldstein, Jones, Smalley † 10. Monoclonal Antibody Therapy; Dillman 11. Immunotoxins; Frankel, Woo, Neville 12. Drug Immunoconjugates; Safa, Foon, Oldham 13. Targeted Radionuclide Therapy of Cancer; Pagel, Boerma, Breitz, Meredith 14. Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Transplantation as Biotherapy; Oldham 15. Cellular Immunotherapy (CI), where have we been and where are we going?; Yannelli 16. Growth and Differentiation factors as Cancer Therapeutics; Mehta, Oldham, Ozpalat 17. Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor: Biology and Clinical Potential; Foote, Morstyn 18. Granulocyte-MacrophageColony-Stimulating factor; Foote, Morstyn 19. Cancer Gene Therapy; Buchsbaum, Miller, McNally, Kaliberov 20. Regulatory Process for Approval of Biologicals for Cancer Therapy; Grillo-Lopez 21. Cancer Biotherapy: 1998 Disease-Related Activity; Oldham, Dillman 22. Speculation for 2008 and Beyond; Oldham

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