Syllabus
1. Cancer etiology (carcinogens, mechanisms of tumor transformation, characteristic features of tumor cells)
2. Tumor antigens, antitumor immune response, tumor escape
3. Possibilities of cancer therapy, history of cancer immunotherapy, methods for immune response monitoring during cancer immunotherapy, vaccine strategies for cancer immunotherapy
4. Cancer immunotherapy with polymer-bound drugs
5. Monoclonal antibodies in cancer immunotherapy (hybridoma technology, chimeric and humanized monoklonal antibodies)
6. Cancer immunotherapy based on the cellular immunity (LAK cells, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, antigen specific T cells, dendritic cells)
7. Cytokines in cancer immunotherapy, the newest approaches used in cancer immunotherapy
8. Students' presentations
Annotation
Compulsory optional course for students of the third year