Immunnaya sistema igraet dvoystvennuyu rol' v patogeneze zlokachestvennogo rosta i, v chastnosti, raka molochnoy zhelezy. S odnoy storony, mekhanizmy immunnoy sistemy obespechivayut protivoopukholevyy nadzor i sderzhivayut zlokachestvennyy rost, s drugoy storony, oni vovlecheny v opukholevuyu progressiyu. Kakie usloviya opredelyayut formirovanie toy ili drugoy napravlennosti funktsionirovaniya immunnoy sistemy? V chem zaklyuchayutsya otlichiya v sostoyanii immunnoy sistemy pri realizatsii eyu protivoopukholevoy i opukholestimuliruyushchey aktivnosti? Vozmozhno li "obratit'" strategiyu sodeystviya opukholevomu rostu v blagopriyatnuyu storonu? Avtor monografii stremitsya nayti otvety na eti voprosy, analiziruya sovremennuyu literaturu i dannye sobstvennykh issledovaniy. Kniga prednaznachena dlya onkologov, immunologov, a takzhe prepodavateley i studentov meditsinskikh i biologicheskikh spetsial'nostey.