Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy for Tumor Prevention and Treatment
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 63931
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cell-cycle regulation; peptide therapeutics - pancreatic cancer; pancreatic and liver disease; serologic tumor marker detection; oncoproteins; early tumor detection; evaluation of abdominal masses
Interests: guanylyl cyclases; intestinal epithelial cell biology; GI malignancies; colorectal cancer; targeted therapeutics; cancer mucosal antigens; cancer vaccines; immune tolerance; adoptive cell therapy
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Dear Colleagues,
Cancer immunotherapy has gained considerable popularity and momentum in recent years. Cancer vaccines, consisting of preventive and therapeutic vaccines, work by inducing or augmenting the immune response to enhance the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. Innovations for construction of cancer vaccines have emerged from advances in molecular immunology and cancer biology. Generally, vaccines combined with various adjuvants have been used to exploit the immune repertoire to induce antitumor immunity against specific tumor-associated antigens to overcome ignorance and tolerance to cancer cells. As a result, a multitude of cancer treatment vaccines has shown considerable promise in preclinical studies with subsequent development thus far of only a single FDA-approved vaccine.
Recent historic advances in immunotherapy underscore our continued quest for novel modern approaches to the treatment of cancer. It is becoming increasingly more apparent that a paradigm shift toward combination therapy might serve as a better treatment option compared to monotherapy to unleash a robust immune response against tumors. Combination regimens currently being explored with cancer vaccines include differing immunotherapeutic approaches involving immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy, monoclonal antibodies, adoptive cancer therapy, conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy, which could be widely employed to target the tumor and associated microenvironment.
This Special Issue focuses on cancer vaccines and immunotherapy research. Submission of original articles, systematic reviews, short communications, and other types of article on related topics are welcome. Manuscripts will follow standard Journal peer-review practices, and those accepted for publication will appear in the special issue on Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy for Tumor Prevention and Treatment. We look forward to receiving and welcome your contributions.
Prof. Wilbur B. Bowne
Dr. Adam E. Snook
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer vaccines
- cancer immunotherapy
- preventive and therapeutic vaccines
- adjuvant
- combination therapy
- immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy
- monoclonal antibodies
- adoptive cancer therapy
- conventional chemotherapy/radiation therapy
- tumor microenvironment
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