Inflammation and Lung Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dubinett, Steven M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Immunology.; Medical microbiology.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Medical Microbiology.

This volume  presents aspects of the inflammatory tumor microenvironment (TME) and its many roles in tumor progression and metastasis, including creation of a hypoxic environment, increased angiogenesis and invasion, changes in expression of microRNAs (miRNAs), and an increase in a stem cell phenoty...

Table of Contents:

• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: The relationship to COPD
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: The role of EMT
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: Molecular pathology
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: Prevention
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: The Link to Angiogenesis
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: Eicosanoids
• Inflammation and Lung Cancer: Addressing Inflammation with Immunotherapy.