Autoimmuno-Anti-Tumour Immunity (AATI) - Understanding the Immune Responses against "Self" & "Altered-self"

• Auteur principal: Fang-Ping Huang (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Collection: Frontiers Research Topics
• Sujets: Medicine; Autoimmunity; tumour immunotherapy; Immunosuppression; tumourigenesis; Immune Regulation; Inflammation; anti-tumour immunity; Cancer
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The brief description of tumours being "wounds that do not heal" by Dr Harold F. Dworak nearly three decades ago (N Engl J Med 1986) has provided not only a vivid illustration of neoplastic diseases in general but also, in retrospect conceptually, a plausible immunological definition of ca...