Cancer as a Proinflammatory Environment: Metastasis and Cachexia

The development of the syndrome of cancer cachexia and that of metastasis are related with a poor prognostic for cancer patients. They are considered multifactorial processes associated with a proinflammatory environment, to which tumour microenvironment and other tissues from the tumour bearing ind...

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Main Authors: Nelson Inácio Pinto, June Carnier, Lila M. Oyama, Jose Pinhata Otoch, Paulo Sergio Alcântara, Flavio Tokeshi, Claudia M. Nascimento
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Mediators of Inflammation
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/791060