Advancements in tumor immunotherapy and cancer vaccines / monograph

00 preface_ Advancements in Tumor Immunotherapy and Cancer Vaccines......Page 1 01 Immunotherapy in Urologic Malignancies: The Evolution and Future of Pattern Recognition Receptors ......Page 11 02 Vaccine and Cancer Therapy for Genitourinary Tumors......Page 31 03 Challenges to Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy ......Page 47 04 Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy. Strategy with a Synthetic GnRH Based Vaccine Candidate ......Page 73 05 Immune-Therapy in Cutaneous Melanoma – Efficacy Immune Markers......Page 93 06 Innate Immunity – Based Immunotherapy of Cancer d......Page 117 07 The Potential Use of Triterpene Compounds in Dendritic Cells-Based Immunotherapy......Page 151 08 The Novel Use of Zwitterionic Bacterial Components and Polysaccharides in Immunotherapy of Cancer and Immunosuppressed Cancer Patients ......Page 165 09 Type III Interferons IL-28 and IL-29: Novel Interferon Family Members with Therapeutic Potential in Cancer Therapy ......Page 185 10 Interleukin 12: Stumbling Blocks and Stepping Stones to Effective Anti-Tumor Therapy ......Page 207 Blank Page......Page 10 Harnessing the potential of the human body's own immune system to attack malignant tumor cells has been the goal of many scientific investigators in recent years, with advances in cancer biology and immunology enabling cancer immunotherapy to become a reality. World-class bench and clinical researchers have joined forces to collaborate and review current developments and trends in cancer immunology for the purposes of this book, and the result is a promising review of contemporary clinical treatments. In each chapter the authors present the scientific basis behind such therapeutic approaches, including cancer vaccines with special focus on prostate cancer, melanoma and novel approaches utilizing both innate and adaptive immune responses