Cancer biotherapy : An introductory guide

ISBN-13: 9780198566311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str.

Annie Young; Lewis Rowett; David Kerr

Opis

Advances in biology and immunology have led to major developments in cancer therapies. This book combines discussion of the underlying principles with clinical focus, highlighting clinical relevance and treatment issues. It includes the principles behind biological therapy, with discussion of the impact on the future of the fight against cancer.

Recenzje

This introductory guide is essential reading as the transition from the laboratory phase to clinical practice is made. Opening chapters on the cell biology of caner and the immune system set the scene, before the clinical development of biological therapies is addressed. The reader is then guided through the various methods and types of biological therapy...The potential of genetic information to benefit patients concludes this guide. [It is] edited by a team with perspectives in pharmacology, oncology and nursing, and [has] contributions from experts in the various areas of biotherapy.

O autorze

David Kerr is Rhodes Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, and Director of the National Translational Cancer Research Network. He is Editor-in-Chief of OUP's journal Annals of Oncology, and is currently working in Oxford to build a new Institute for Cancer Medicine. He was awarded the CBE in 2002. Lewis Rowett is the Executive Editor of the OUP journal Annals of Oncology, Europe's leading clinical oncology journal. He has worked for the European Society for Medical Oncology since 1998. Annie Young was a biochemist prior to training as a nurse. She was instrumental in starting up a home chemotherapy and gene therapy service in Birmingham, and she is now a Nurse Director covering three counties.