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Multiple approaches to immunotherapy ‐ the new pillar of cancer treatment
Author(s) -
Smyth Mark J
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
immunology and cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.999
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1440-1711
pISSN - 0818-9641
DOI - 10.1038/icb.2017.9
Subject(s) - immunotherapy , cancer immunotherapy , cancer , feature (linguistics) , tumor microenvironment , medicine , immunology , adoptive immunotherapy , immune system , biology , philosophy , linguistics
The April 2017 issue of Immunology & Cell Biology contains a Special Feature on Cancer Immunotherapy. This series of reviews highlights some of the recent advances in mobilizing effective host immunity to cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is at a critical and exciting stage of development. Progress in our understanding of cancer immunotherapy has been dramatic over recent years and we have selected six articles to highlight in this Special Feature. The Special Feature begins with an overview of the approaches to targeting inflammation in the cancer microenvironment and follows with a focus of extracellular adenosine as a major immunosuppressive metabolite in tumours. Two subsequent articles detail advances in antibody engineering for engaging the ideal effector responses in tumours and the Special Feature finishes with two articles that explore new approaches in adoptive cellular therapy targeted at tumor and virus specific antigens in tumors. Immunology & C ell Biology thanks the coordinator of this Special Feature ‐ Mark Smyth ‐ for his planning and input.