Conference on immune suppression in cancer

简介（由申请人提供）：本次国际生物医学会议将于2007年1月25日至28日在佛罗里达州克利尔沃特喜来登沙钥匙酒店举行。本次会议的目的是促进肿瘤免疫学最新发现和思想的交流。尽管前景看好，但癌症免疫疗法迄今尚未带来切实的临床效益。现在很清楚，不了解肿瘤诱导的免疫抑制机制，在这一领域的进一步进展将是不可能的。到目前为止，已经提出了大量可能的癌症免疫抑制机制。它们为当前和未来的临床试验奠定了基础。然而，这些丰富的信息创造了一个非常复杂的画面。提议的机制相互竞争。整个领域迫切需要讨论已经描述的和新出现的机制，以了解如何将它们放在一起形成或多或少具有凝聚力的结构。这将是第一次完全专注于肿瘤诱导的免疫抑制问题的会议。参加这个教育项目的结果是，参与者将能够：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This international biomedical conference will be held January 25-28 2007 at Sheraton Sand Key Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. The purpose of this meeting is to foster exchange of the most recent findings and ideas in tumor immunology. Despite high promise, cancer immunotherapy so far has not delivered tangible clinical benefits. It is now clear that without understanding the mechanisms of tumor induced immune suppression, further progress in this area will not be possible. By this time a large number of possible mechanisms of immune suppression in cancer have been proposed. They form a foundation for current and future clinical trials. However, this wealth of information has created a very convoluted picture. Proposed mechanisms compete with each other. There is a pressing need for the entire field to discuss already described and new emerging mechanisms to see how they can be put together in more or less cohesive structure. This will be first conference entirely focused on the problem of tumor-induced immune suppression. As a result of participating in this educational program, participants will be able to: Assess recent progress in the filed of cancer immunotherapy; Review successes and failures of current immunotherapy regiments; Evaluate different mechanisms of tumor induced immune suppression; Discuss contribution of these mechanisms to failure of cancer treatment; Examine how different molecular pathways contribute to tumor escape of immune system control; Review and discuss how our knowledge of new mechanisms of tumor associated immune suppression can be translated into new therapeutics