Full title: Therapeutic Strategies in Lymphoid Malignancies [electronic resource] : An Immunotherapeutic Approach

Author/creator: Witzig, TE, Hillmen, P.

Date: 2005..

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Record Identifier: 74VKapb0XPbg

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource (238 p.), , , , Contents; Contributors; 1. The history of immunotherapy for lymphoid malignancies; 2. Immunological markers of lymphoid malignancy; 3. Diagnostic and prognostic markers of lymphoid malignancies; the latest genetic, cytogenetic and haematological parameters; 4. CD20: B-cell antigen and therapeutic target; 5. Rituximab and chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphomas: improved response and survival; 6. Rituximab and chemotherapy in elderly patients with lymphomas; 7. Maintenance therapy with rituximab; 8. Interferon-alpha in lymphoid malignancies, 9. Radioimmunotherapy safety: radiation protection, administration guidelines, isotope comparison, and quality of life issues10. Radioimmunotherapy with Yttrium-90-labelled ibritumomab tiuxetan (ZevalinTM) for B-cell Hodgkin's lymphoma; 11. Radioimmunotherapy combinations with other therapies for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; 12. 131I-Tositumomab therapy for the treatment ofl ow-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; 13. CD52 as a target for immunotherapy; 14. Relapsed and refractory CLL: a clinical challenge, 15. Optimising the use of alemtuzumab in CLL: new therapeutic end points, disease stratification and therapy earlier in the disease course16. Alemtuzumab in combination with other therapies in B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders; 17. The role of alemtuzumab in allogeneic stem cell transplantation; 18. Alemtuzumab in T-cell malignancies; 19. Epratuzumab: A new humanised monoclonal antibody to CD22; 20. Education and management of patients undergoing immunotherapy and radioimmunotherapy; 21. Antibody therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Index

Publishers: Oxford : Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd, 2005.

Notes: Therapeutic Strategies Description based upon print version of record.

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