Development of approaches for immunotherapy by chimeric antigen receptor modified hematopoietic stem cell transfer

Cancer is an uncontrolled growth of the body's own cells. While cancer rates increase with age, this disease afflicts both young and old. Traditional cancer therapy has had three major facets: 1) chemotherapy, which can non-specifically damage healthy tissue, 2) radiation, which can make some t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Badowski, Michael Steven
Other Authors: Harris, David T
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
Subjects:
CAR
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193512