Books in the Molecular and Cell Biology of Human Diseases Series series

advanced metastatic disease of solid tumors, dictates that each tumor mass, indeed each individual metastasis, will have a unique antigen and cytokine environment and hence unique response to immune modu lation. Most chemotherapeutic regimes require a complete response or a good partial response for cure or good palliation.

This book attempts to put into one volume a state of the art review of the basic biology of these opportunistic organisms. When compiling this book, the perceived difficulty was deciding how to restrict the number of chapters, as there is a large number of opportunistic organisms.

advanced metastatic disease of solid tumors, dictates that each tumor mass, indeed each individual metastasis, will have a unique antigen and cytokine environment and hence unique response to immune modu lation. Most chemotherapeutic regimes require a complete response or a good partial response for cure or good palliation.