Molecular Markers of Brain Tumor Cells Implications for Diagnosis, Prognosis and Anti-Neoplastic Biological Therapy /

• Main Authors: Bodey, Bela (Author), Siegel, Stuart E. (Author), Kaiser, Hans E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Oncology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

Childhood brain tumors are a diverse group of diseases characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue contained within the skull. Other than leukemia and lymphoma, brain tumors are the most common type of neoplasms that occur in children. The leading cause of death from childhood neoplasms among per...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Biology of Tumors
• Brain Tumors
• Immunophenotypic Characterization of Infiltrating Poly- and Mononuclear Cells in Childhood Brain Tumors
• Anti-Neoplastic Biological Therapies
• Experimental Therapies in Brain Tumors
• Biologic Anti-Neoplastic Therapies
• The Lymphokine Activeted Killer (LAK) Cell Phenomenon
• Angiogenesis Inhibition in Anti-Neoplastic Therapy
• Antigen Presentation by Dendritic Cells and Their Significance in Anti-Neoplastic Immunotherapy
• Genetically Engineered Antibodies for Direct Anti-Neoplastic Treatment and Systematic Delivery of Various Therapeutic Agents to Cancer Cells
• Cancer-Testis Antigens: Promising Targets for Antigen Directed Anti-Neoplastic Immunotherapy
• Prologue
• Materials and Methods.