TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Tumor Immunity A1 - Levinson, Warren A1 - Chin-Hong, Peter A1 - Joyce, Elizabeth A. A1 - Nussbaum, Jesse A1 - Schwartz, Brian Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 17e AB - One of the key functions of the immune system is to patrol the body for cancer cells in order to kill these cells before they become malignant tumors. In this chapter, we will discuss (1) how the immune system is able to recognize cancer cells; (2) how cancer cells evolve to hide from and suppress the immune system; and (3) how immunotherapy re-invigorates the immune system’s killing mechanisms. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190865090 ER -