Chronic Inflammation in cancer development

Chronic Inflammation in cancer development

Chronic inflammatory mediators exert pleiotropic effects in the development of cancer. On the one hand, inflammation favors carcinogenesis, malignant transformation, tumor growth, invasion and metastatic spread; on the other hand inflammation can stimulate immune effector mechanisms that might limit...

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Main Authors: Gabriele eMulthoff, Michael eMolls, Jürgen eRadons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
Subjects:
Inflammation
Heat shock proteins
IL-1
STAT-3
NF-kB
Carcinogenesis
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2011.00098/full

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