This volume, a state-of-the-art review of early phase clinical trials for cancer immunotherapy, discusses biomarker selection, combinatorial strategies and their safety or toxicity, determination of Phase 2 dosing, endpoints in the setting of radiographic pseudoprogression, histology selection, and novel immunotherapeutics as they relate to early phase cancer immunotherapy.

Autorentext

Razelle Kurzrock, MD, is Senior Deputy Director for Clinical Science, Chief, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Murray Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy & Clinical Trials Office, University of California, San Diego.

Sandip Patel, MD, is Assistant Professor, Cancer Immunotherapy Program, Experimental Therapeutics (Phase 1 Program), Thoracic Oncology, Division of Hematology & Oncology and Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Primer on Cancer Immunotherapy and the Targeting of Native Proteins.- Chapter 2 Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Immunotherapy.- Chapter 3 Immunotherapeutic Biomarkers and Selection Strategies.- Chapter 4 Radiographic Evaluation of Immunotherapy.- Chapter 5 Cellular Therapy.- Chapter 6 Combinatorial Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy and Radiation.- Chapter 7 Early Phase Cancer Immunotherapy.- Chapter 8 Immune Checkpoint Combinations with Inflammatory Pathway Modulators.- Chapter 9 Combinations of Genomically and Immune-Targeted Therapies in Early-Phase Clinical Trials.- Chapter 10 Thoracic Immunotherapy.