Introduction to Immunology

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2018

Abstract

The success of standard treatments (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, and hormone therapy) in preventing/curing serious diseases is at best modest; moreover these treatments often carry unavoidable and devastating side effects. Therefore the immune system, the discipline of a healthy lifestyle, and the early detection of disease (using biomarkers) are our three friends in disease prevention and cure. With its aim of maintaining an exquisitely precise response to a vast array of potential native and foreign antigens, the immune system is a complex and powerful but imperfect system that needs to be given priority in the field of disease research.

Publication Title

Immunology: Immunotoxicology, Immunopathology, and Immunotherapy

First Page Number

3

Last Page Number

7

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-12-809819-6.00001-0

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