Defects in T Cell Trafficking and Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

This volume focuses on recent advances in understanding T cells as key players in antitumor immune responses, and as a result T cell-based immunotherapy is starting to transform the treatment of advanced cancers. However, despite recent successes, many patients with cancer fail to respond to these t...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Donnadieu, Emmanuel (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Series:Resistance to Targeted Anti-Cancer Therapeutics, 9
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:This volume focuses on recent advances in understanding T cells as key players in antitumor immune responses, and as a result T cell-based immunotherapy is starting to transform the treatment of advanced cancers. However, despite recent successes, many patients with cancer fail to respond to these treatments. Defective migration of T cells into and within tumors is considered as an important resistance mechanism to cancer immunotherapy. The volume includes three sections. The first section covers general knowledge about T cell trafficking during a normal immune response but also during tumor development. The second section provides an in-depth description of the different obstacles that prevent T cells from migrating and contacting tumor cells. The third section explores therapeutic strategies to improve trafficking of T cells into tumors and, thus, to enhance the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy.
Physical Description:VIII, 199 p. 27 illus., 19 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783319422237
ISSN:2196-5501 ;