Inflammation and Immunity in Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Seya, Tsukasa (Editor), Matsumoto, Misako (Editor), Udaka, Keiko (Editor), Sato, Noriyuki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Oncology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.

This book overviews cancer immunity from broad scientific fields, based on the concept that cancer is a sort of by-product of infection, inflammation, and host immune response. The innate and acquired arms of the immune system mainly participate in tumor immune surveillance, and their activation is...