Understanding Cancer Immunotherapy: A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers

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Cancer remains a complex disease characterized by a series of irreversible mutations of critical genes. A host of factors collectively drive mutations and contribute to cancer initiation and development. Great strides have been made in both scope and extent of cancer immunotherapy. Hailed as a robust cancer treatment modality that revitalizes patients inner immune power to harness cancer, cancer immunotherapy is actively transforming cancer care and saving many lives from incurable and treatment-resistant cancers.


Understanding Cancer Immunotherapy: A Guide for Students, Patients, and Caregivers helps readers understand the ins and out cancer immunotherapy. This is done through chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section covers cancer-devouring viral therapy, tumor-infiltrating immune therapy, cytokine therapy, modified dendritic cell therapy, engineered T cell therapy, cancer preventive vaccines, and cancer therapeutic vaccines, companion topics on cancer basics, immunology fundamentals, and cancer risk reduction.

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Nancy Liu-Sullivan holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, 2006 and served as a senior research scientist specializing in cancer genomics and drug discovery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). In parallel to teaching immunology, radiation biology, and cancer biology at the City University of New York College of Staten Island (CUNY/CSI), Dr. Liu-Sullivan has published extensively on cancer for professionals and the general audience.