Cytokines and Cancer
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-0-387-24361-0
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This volume provides a comprehensive review of the current knowledge on cytokines and cancer. Cytokines play a variety of roles in cancer, both as components of pathogenetic mechanisms, as well as agents used in the treatment of certain malignancies.The volume is divided in two sections. Section one focuses on current developments in the basic science field with particular emphasis on novel mechanisms of cytokine actions in malignant cells. The second section deals with translational and clinical research in the field, and many of the chapter authors were among the first to introduce several cytokines in the treatment of certain tumors.
Subject: Medicine, carcinoma, cell, cytokine, cytokines, hematopoietic stem cell, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, interferon, leukemia, lymphoma, melanoma, prostate cancer, stem cell, stem cell transplantation, transplantation, tumor
