Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer: An Evolving Landscape

Jan 14, 2018 by in ONCOLOGY Comments Off on Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer: An Evolving Landscape

Fig. 35.1 Disease progression of prostate cancer from initial diagnosis until death. Local therapies such as surgery and radiation can control initial disease, and hormone-naïve tumors see clinical benefit from…

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IDO/TDO Inhibition in Cancer

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Fig. 17.1 Sites of IDO/TDO expression and action in cancer. Expression of IDO1, IDO2, and TDO documented in various cells in the tumor microenvironment (including metastatic sites) and in tumor-draining…

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Synergy Between Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy

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Fig. 30.1 Margins used in radiation treatment. GTV gross tumor volume, CTV clinical target volume, PTV planning target volume One rapidly evolving area is in the treatment of patients with…

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Local Immunotherapies of Cancer

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Fig. 28.1 The central tenants of induction of an in situ immune response to tumor antigen. First is a stimulus causing immunogenic cell death, which leads for resident or recruited…

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Biology of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells

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Fig. 10.1 Origin of MDSCs. In the bone marrow, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) differentiate into common myeloid progenitor (CMP) followed by granulocyte-macrophage progenitor (GMP), which give rise to immature myeloid…

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Mutant Epitopes in Cancer

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Fig. 4.1 Strategies to identify mutant epitopes from transformed cells, CSF: cerebrospinal fluid 4.2 Antigen Processing and Presentation in Cancer In order to gain an understanding of the dynamics driving…

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