Cancer-related inflammation, the seventh hallmark of cancer: links to genetic instability.

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Summary

This work surmises that CRI represents the seventh hallmark of cancer, and suggests that an additional mechanism involved in cancer-related inflammation (CRI) is induction of genetic instability by inflammatory mediators, leading to accumulation of random genetic alterations in cancer cells.

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review
Published
2009-07-01
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Keywords

Inflammation, Cancer, Angiogenesis, Cancer research, Tumor microenvironment

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