Tumor Immunology : Immunotherapy and Cancer Vaccines (Paperback)

Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction and historical perspectives Michael Browning and A. G. Dalgleish; 2. The immunosurveillance of cancer: specific and non-specific mechanisms Richard G. Vile, Heung Chong and Sina Dorudi; 3. Antigen processing and presentation Nicholas C. Testifo and Michael Wang; 4. The role of the MHC class I in tumor immunity Michael Browning; 5. Human tumor antigens recognized by Cytolytic T Lymphocytes Pierre G Coulie; 6. Peptide-specific CTL directed against viral oncogene products Mariet C.W. Feltkamp, Cornelis J. M. Melief and W. Martin Kast; 7. Cellular oncogenes for tumor immunity: immunotherapy Hans J. Strauss and A. Maria Dahl; 8. Co-stimulatory molecules and their role in tumour immunity A. G. Dalgleish; 9. The role of cytokines in tumour rejection Guido Forni and Robin Foa; 10. Inhibition of nonhemopoietic cancer cell growth by Interleukin-4 and related cytokines Dave S. B. Hoon, Takashi Morisaki and Richard Essner; 11. Current concepts concerning melanoma vaccines Donald L. Morton and Mepur H. Ravindranath; 12. Immune responses to mucins Rosalind A. Graham and Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou; 13. Heat shock protein-peptide complexes: pan-valent vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases Ryuichiro Suto and Pramod K. Srivastave; 14. The potential of gene transfer to alter the immune response to tumors Bernard A. Fox and Gary J. Nabel; 15. Applications of antibody gene technology Robert E. Hawkins and Kerry A. Chester; Index.