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Systemic Radiotherapy with Monoclonal Antibodies - Options and Problems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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Systemic Radiotherapy with Monoclonal Antibodies - Options and Problems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
Series: Recent Results in Cancer Research, 141
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Almost a century ago Paul Ehrlich introduced the "magic bullet"
concept of targeting therapeutic agents to specific tissues in
order to reduce systemic toxicity. Due to the advances in hybridoma
technology in the 1980s, monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) with their
exquisite affinity to tumor antigens have become powerful tools in
the treatment of cancer, especially when linked to therapeutic
agents such as radionuclides, drugs, toxins, or enzymes. It can now
be expected that such agents will lead to new cancer treatments
with high therapeutic success rates. However, there are major
problems in developing this therapeutic concept to a routine
treatment modality. This is partly due to factors such as
heterogenous distribution of tumor antigens, insufficient blood
supply of tumors, high interstitial pressure, and the large
interstitial space that antibodies have to traverse. This book is
focused on the development in radio immunotherapy (RIT) using radio
labeled monoclonal antibodies as tumoritoxic agents. This area of
research has attracted the interest of clinicians and scientists
from many different disciplines. It is now clear that the full
potential of RIT can only be realized through the concerted efforts
of laboratory scientists (molecular biologists, cell physiologists,
chemists, radiation physicists, and biologists) and cancer
clinicians in nuclear medicine, radiooncology, and internal
oncology."
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