Cancer Immunotherapies
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2016) | Viewed by 135784
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 73126, USA
Interests: Immunotherapy; CAR-T cells; tumor microenvironment; checkpoint protein; hypoxia; tumor survival signaling
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Dear Colleagues,
Cancer immunotherapy (therapy that uses a person's immune system to fight cancer) has become an important field of oncology. There are four main types of immunotherapies: monoclonal antibodies; cancer vaccines; checkpoint inhibitors; and non-specific cancer immunotherapies (therapies that do not target cancer specifically, but stimulate immune cells that can lead to anti-cancer immune response, such as interleukins, cytokines, interferons, and others). Tumors express ligands to immune checkpoint proteins, such as PD-1 (programmed cell death 1) and CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4), mediating block of immune response. Thus, the development of inhibitors of these immune checkpoint pathways is a promising area of immune therapeutics. In addition, tumors express tumor antigens that can be targeted with antibodies; antibody-drug conjugates; chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells; or by other approaches. Dendritic cell vaccine is another important immunotherapy approach against cancer. This Special Issue is focused on recent immunotherapy approaches, novel immune therapeutics, and immunology signaling pathways in cancer.
Dr. Vita Golubovskaya
Guest editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- immunotherapy
- CAR-T cell
- dendritic cell
- lymphocyte
- tumor antigen
- monoclonal antibody
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