Includes bibliographical references and index.

Salmonella typhimurium mutants selected to grow only in tumors to eradicate them in nude mouse models / Robert M. Hoffman -- The use of living Listeria monocytogenes as an active immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer / John Rothman ... [et al.] -- Bacillus Calmete-Guerin (BCG) for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder / Timothy P. Kresowik and Thomas S. Griffith -- Live clostridia : a powerful tool in tumor biotherapy / Lieve Van Mellaert, Ming Q. Wei, and Jozef Ann -- Bifidobacterium as a delivery system of functional genes for cancer gene therapy / Geng-Feng Fu ... [et al.] -- Replication-selective viruses for the treatment of cancer / Padma Sampath and Steve H. Thorne -- Engineering Herpes simplex virus for cancer oncolytic virotherapy / Jason S. Buhrman, Tooba A. Cheema, and Giulia Fulci -- Promiscuous anticancer drugs from pathogenic bacteria : rational versus intelligent drug design / Arsenio M. Fialho and Ananda M. Chakrabarty -- Arginine Deiminase and cancer therapy / L. Feun ... [et al.] -- Cytosine deaminase/5-fluorocytosine molecular cancer chemotherapy / Sergey A. Kaliberov and Donald J. Buchsbaum -- Bacterial proteins against metastasis / A.M.E. Walenkamp -- Pseudomonas exotoxin A-based immunotoxins for targeted cancer therapy / Philipp Wolf and Ursula Elsesser-Beile -- Denileukin Diftitox in novel cancer therapy / Lin-Chi Chen and Nam H. Dang -- The application of cationic antimicrobial peptides in cancer treatment : laboratory investigations and clinical potential / Ashley Hilchie and David W. Hoskin -- Prodiginines and their potential utility as proapoptotic anticancer agents / Neil R. Williamson ... [et al.] -- Farnesyltransferase inhibitors of microbial origins in cancer therapy / Jingxuan Pan and Sai-Ching Jim Yeung -- The use of RNA and CpG dna as nucleic acid-based therapeutics / Jorg Vollmer -- The role and importance of intellectual property generation and protection in drug development / Arsenio M. Fialho and Ananda M. Chakrabarty.