Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2011) | Viewed by 201685
Special Issue Editors
Interests: design of HPV immunotherapeutics; developing new and effective therapies for cervical cancer; prostate cancer and melanoma
Interests: tumor immunology, developing therapeutic and preventive tumor vaccine; ovarian cancer, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, prostate cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
Despite intense ongoing research, many cancers are still incurable. Tumor cells induce immune tolerance, which represents a major obstacle for the application of cancer immunotherapy. Therefore, a current challenge for the field of cancer immunotherapy is to develop new approaches capable of breaking tumor-induced tolerance and inducing the (re-)activation of spontaneous and/or vaccine-triggered anti-tumor immune responses.
The exciting news this year is that we are now experiencing that cancer immunotherapy is finally becoming part of FDA approved cancer therapies. Cancer immunotherapy may provide a more effective and safer alternative approach to standard treatments, since unlike these currently available standard treatments, vaccines exploit natural anti-tumor immune surveillance, and offer the potential to provide durable control of primary and metastatic cancers.
Therefore, we invite research and review manuscripts in the field of cancer vaccines/cancer immunotherapy and topics related to new tumor antigen discovery, novel developments in therapeutic and preventive cancer vaccines, T regulatory cells, dendritic cell vaccines, T cell vaccines, B cell vaccines, pharmacological therapy, gene therapy, tumor-associated cancer testis antigens, immunosuppressive mechanisms, immune-regulatory applications and the regulation of immune surveillance against cancer as well as multi modality cancer approaches in which cancer vaccines/cancer immunotherapies play a role.
We are looking forward to your vital contributions.
Dr. W. Martin Kast
Dr. Maurizio Chiriva Internati
Guest Editors
Keywords
- cytotoxic T lymphocytes
- dendritic cells
- therapeutic cancer vaccines
- preventive cancer vaccines
- cancer immunotherapy
- immunomodulation