Cancer Vaccines: Sixth International Symposium, Volume 1174: 33 (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573317594 ISBN 13: 9781573317597

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

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WITH TEN MILLION PERSONS AFFLICTED EACH YEAR, NO ONE IS ENTIRELY IMMUNE TO CANCER AND ITS DEVASTATING EFFECTS ON INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES. BUT RECENT ADVANCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER VACCINES EITHER AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS OR AS PREVENTATIVE MEASURES ARE HOPEFUL INDICATORS OF PROGRESS IN THIS FIELD. THIS VOLUME COMPRISES INVITED CHAPTERS FROM WORLD–RENOWNED RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS THAT SHED LIGHT ON RECENT STEPS FORWARD IN IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC AND PREVENTIVE APPROACHES FOR FUTURE CANCER VACCINES. NOTE: ANNALS VOLUMES ARE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AS INDIVIDUAL BOOKS OR AS A JOURNAL. FOR INFORMATION ON INSTITUTIONAL JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTIONS, PLEASE VISIT WWW.BLACKWELLPUBLISHING.COM/NYAS. ACADEMY MEMBERS: PLEASE CONTACT THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES DIRECTLY TO PLACE YOUR ORDER (WWW.NYAS.ORG). MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE RECEIVE FULL–TEXT ACCESS TO THE ANNALS ONLINE AND DISCOUNTS ON PRINT VOLUMES. PLEASE VISIT HTTP://WWW.NYAS.ORG/MEMBERCENTER/JOIN.ASPX FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BECOMING A MEMBER.

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Biografía del autor:

Ralph Marvin Steinman was a Canadian physician and medical researcher at Rockefeller University, who in 1973 discovered and named dendritic cells while working as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Zanvil A. Cohn, also at Rockefeller University. Kenichiro Hasumi is the editor of Cancer Vaccines: Sixth International Symposium, Volume 1174, published by Wiley.

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1573317594
• ISBN 13: 9781573317597
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 300
• Herausgeber: Steinman Ralph M., Hasumi Kenichiro, Finn Olivera J., Banchereau Jacques