Obesity, Inflammation and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dannenberg, Andrew J. (Editor), Berger, Nathan A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Energy Balance and Cancer ; 7
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Human physiology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Human Physiology.; Biomedicine general.

In addition to their metabolic and endocrinologic effects, obesity and adipose tissue have now been shown to be associated with chronic low grade inflammation resulting in cellular and humoral factors of which the latter may act by endocrine, paracrine and autocrine mechanisms. These inflammatory me...