Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is a malignant tumor found in the brain stem which mainly affects children. It has an aggressive nature with no available curative treatment. Cancer immunotherapy using specific tumor antigens to target tumor cells may be a viable alternative therapeutic option for DIPG, however antigen presentation is highly downregulated in tumors. This study aims t…
Janeway's Immunobiology is a textbook that introduces the immune system in all its aspects to undergraduates, and also provides a treatment of the subject that is comprehensive enough to be useful to graduate students interested in research, and to medical students focused on clinical applications. The Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and is available in both print and e-b…
The interplay between tumors and their immunologic microenvironment is complex, difficult to decipher, but its understanding is of seminal importance for the development of novel prognostic markers and therapeutic strategies. The present review discusses tumor-immune interactions in several human cancers that illustrate various aspects of this complexity and proposes an integrated scheme of the…