Tadayoshi Shioyama: Biomedical Therapies for Fatal Diseases, Gebunden

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***Biomedical Therapies for Fatal Diseases***documents the history of treating various fatal diseases and the progress made on various therapies that have extended life expectancy and alleviated suffering in those afflicted by these diseases. For example, advances in vaccination protocols have rendered some diseases, which were once almost always fatal, nearly extinct. After the introductory explanation, this book explains causes or mechanisms of fatal diseases such as cancer and ALS, and recent therapies that may relieve patients' suffering, such as photoimmunotherapy, checkpoint blockade therapy, CAR T-cell therapy, and current ALS therapy. Furthermore, clinical trials approved by the FDA are described.