Main description:

Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. This thematic volume looks at "Applications of viruses for cancer therapy". With outstanding and original reviews, this volume covers topics such as Cancer Terminator Viruses and Approaches for Enhancing Therapeutic Outcomes, esign of improved oncolytic adenoviruses, and Adenovirus-based immunotherapies for cancer.

Contents:

1. Cancer Terminator Viruses and Approaches for Enhancing Therapeutic Outcomes

2. Targeted Ad

3. Syrian hamster as an animal model for oncolytic adenoviruses and for the study of adenoviral pathogenesis

4. Design of improved oncolytic adenoviruses

5. Imaging of a Somatostatin Receptor-Cytosine Deaminase Fusion Gene

6. Diz Detection

7. Adenovirus-based immunotherapies for cancer

8. Toxin GT

9. Radiation Therapy/ Gene Therapy

10. Cell Vehicles

11. Oncolytic adenoviruses for cancer immunotherapy: data from mice, hamsters and humans