Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shalapour, Shabnam
• Karin, Michael

Titel

Immunity, inflammation, and cancer: an eternal fight between good and evil

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of clinical investigation, 2015-09, Vol.125 (9), p.3347-3355

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Society for Clinical Investigation

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cancer development and its response to therapy are strongly influenced by innate and adaptive immunity, which either promote or attenuate tumorigenesis and can have opposing effects on therapeutic outcome. Chronic inflammation promotes tumor development, progression, and metastatic dissemination, as well as treatment resistance. However, cancer development and malignant progression are also associated with accumulation of genetic alterations and loss of normal regulatory processes, which cause expression of tumor-specific antigens and tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) that can activate antitumor immune responses. Although signals that trigger acute inflammatory reactions often stimulate dendritic cell maturation and antigen presentation, chronic inflammation can be immunosuppressive. This antagonism between inflammation and immunity also affects the outcome of cancer treatment and needs to be considered when designing new therapeutic approaches.