Cancer Vaccines and Tumor Immunity

Rimas J. Orentas, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology, and holds joint appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. James W. Hodge, PhD, is a Senior Scientist in the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. Bryon D. Johnson, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department ofPediatrics, Section of Hematology-Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Contributors. Foreword. Cancer Vaccines and Cancer Immunotherapy. A New Paradigm(Jeffrey Schlom). PART I. INTRODUCTION. Chapter 1. Cancer Vaccines. Progress and Promise (Rimas J. Orentas, Bryon Johnson, and James Hodge). PART II. ADJUVANT THERAPY: ENHANCING THE ENDOGENOUS IMMUNE RESPONSE. Chapter 2. Fully Synthetic Carbohydrate-Based Anti-Tumor Vaccines (Rebecca M. Wilson and Samuel J. Danishefsky). Chapter 3. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Immunotherapy of Genitourinary Cancer (Donald L. Lamm). Chapter 4. Stimulation of Toll-like Receptor 9 for Enhancing Vaccination (Daniel E. Speiser and Arthur M. Krieg). PART III. ANTIGEN-SPECIFIC THERAPY: NOVEL PRESENTATION OF PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN ANTIGENS. Chapter 5. Polyepitope Vaccines (Corey Smith and Rajiv Khanna). Chapter 6. Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapy: HPV-Associated Cervical Cancer as a Model System (Shaw-Wei D. Tsen, Chien-Fu Hung, and T.-C. Wu). Chapter 7. Poxviral Vectors for Cancer Vaccines: State of the Art (Elizabeth K. Wansley). Chapter 8. Immunotherapeutic Strategies Against Cancer Using Listeria Monocytogenes as a Vector for Tumor Antigens (Nicholas C. Souders, Thorsten Verch and Yvonne Paterson). Chapter 9. Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity with Yeast-based Cancer Immunotherapy (Sibyl Munson, Joanne Parker, Tom King, Yingnian Lu, Victoria Kelley, Zhimin Guo, Virginia Borges, and Alex Franzusoff). PART IV. CELL-BASED THERAPY: USING CANCER CELLS AS A MEANS TO INDUCE SPECIFIC TUMOR IMMUNITY. Chapter 10. Allogeneic Whole Cell Vaccines (John Copier and Angus Dalgleish). Chapter 11. Jump-Starting Tumor Immunity with Breast Cancer Therapeutics (Leisha A. Emens). Chapter 12. T-Regulatory Cell Manipulation in Tumor Immunotherapy (Jens Ruter, Brian G. Barnett, Ilona Kryczek, Michael J. Brumlik, Benjamin J. Daniel, George Coukos, Weiping Zou, Tyler J. Curiel). Chapter 13. Tumor Vaccination after Autologous HSCT: What has been Learned from Experimental Models? (Weiqing Jing and Bryon D. Johnson). Chapter 14. Vaccines in the Setting of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (Ronald Gress and Claude Sportes). Chapter 15. Intratumor Generation of Vigorous Antitumor Immune Responses (Ping Yu and Yang-Xin Fu). Chapter 16. Cancer Immunotherapy: Untapping the Potential of Co-Stimulatory Molecules Beyond CTLA-4 (Mathew Augustine, and Lieping Chen). PART V. DEFINING EFFECTIVE CLINICAL RESPONSES. Chapter 17. Advances in Immune Monitoring Strategies for Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy (Seunghee Kim-Schulze, Moshe Ornstein and Howard L. Kaufman). Chapter 18. Immune Evaluation of Cancer Vaccines (Theresa L. Whiteside). Index.