RT Book, Section
A1 Levinson, Warren
A1 Chin-Hong, Peter
A1 Joyce, Elizabeth A.
A1 Nussbaum, Jesse
A1 Schwartz, Brian
SR Print(0)
ID 1175827314
T1 Tumor Immunity
T2 Review of Medical Microbiology & Immunology: A Guide to Clinical Infectious Diseases, 16e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260116717
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175827314
RD 2024/04/24
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  recent  advances  in  immunotherapy  overcome  these  strategies  to  re-invigorate  the  immune  system’s  killing  mechanisms.