Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes and their significance in melanoma prognosis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1102, Issue , 2014, Pages 287-324

  Schatton, Tobias ^a   Scolyer, Richard A ^b   Thompson, John F ^b   Mihm Jr , Martin C ^c  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Anergy; Antigen presentation; Antigen presenting cell; Antitumor immunity; CTL; CTLA 4; Cytotoxic T cell; DC; Dendritic cell; Exhaustion; gp100; Immune surveillance; Immunologic tolerance; Ipilimumab; Macrophage; Major histocompatibility complex; MART 1; Melanoma; Metastasis; MHC; Natural killer cell; Outcome; PD 1; Priming; Prognosis; Progression; Regulatory T cell; Sentinal lymph node; SNL; Staging; T cell; TIL; Treg; Tumor immunology; Tumor therapy; Tumor associated antigen; Tumor infiltrating lymphocyte; Tumor reactive lymphocyte; Tyrosinase

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; TUMOR MARKER;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CELL DESTRUCTION; CLONAL ANERGY; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; JURISPRUDENCE; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; MELANOMA; METASTATIC MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR IMMUNITY;

HUMANS; IMMUNE EVASION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84891749600     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-727-3_16     Document Type: Article

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