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A cytokine-mediated link between innate immunity, inflammation, and cancer

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Lin, Wan-Wan, Karin, Michael·2007·Journal of Clinical Investigation

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It has been established that cancer can be promoted and/or exacerbated by inflammation and infections. Indeed, chronic inflammation orchestrates a tumor-supporting microenvironment that is an indispensable participant in the neoplastic process. The mechanisms that link infection, innate immunity, inflammation, and cancer are being unraveled at a fast pace. Important components in this linkage are the cytokines produced by activated innate immune cells that stimulate tumor growth and progression. In addition, soluble mediators produced by cancer cells recruit and activate inflammatory cells, which further stimulate tumor progression. However, inflammatory cells also produce cytokines that can limit tumor growth. Here we provide an overview of the current understanding of the role of inflammation-induced cytokines in tumor initiation, promotion, and progression.

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  • After chronic stress breaks the balance through a long-term pro-inflammatory response, pro-tumorigenic immune cells and cytokines act on all stages of tumor development including initiation, promotion, malignant transformation, invasion, and metastasis through mutation, epigenetic modification, and regulation of the tumor microenvironment.

    “After chronic stress breaks this balance through a long-term pro-inflammatory response, these cells and cytokines can act on all stages of tumor development, including initiation, promotion, malignant transformation, invasion, and metastasis through mutation, epigenetic modification, and regulation of the tumor microenvironment [(50, 51); Figure 3].”

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Authors
Lin, W.-W., & Karin, M.
Affiliations
  • National Taiwan University (TW)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Karin, Michael
Venue
Journal of Clinical Investigation
Published
2007-05-01
Volume
117
Issue
5
Pages
1175-1183
ISSN
0021-9738 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2133439754
Cited by
1,940
References
128
Citations by year
2026: 18 · 2025: 39 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 93 · 2021: 117 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 102 · 2018: 93 · 2017: 123 · 2016: 104 · 2015: 127 · 2014: 134 · 2013: 130 · 2012: 124
FWCI
8.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Clinical Investigation (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Chemokine receptors and signaling
Keywords
cytokines, innate immunity, inflammation, cancer, chronic inflammation, tumor microenvironment, tumor promotion, tumor progression, infection and cancer, tumor initiation, inflammatory cells
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Inflammation, Neoplasms, Cytokines

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