Molecular mechanism of inflammatory action in promoting tumors / 中国病理生理杂志

Over the past ten years studies in animals and human have supported the links between inflammation and tumors. The inflammatory cells and agents found in tumors play an important role in the pathogenesis of malignant disease facilitating tumor growth, invasion and metastasis. This article reviewed the molecular mechanism of inflammatory action in promoting tumors and suggested that inflammatory cytokine network is more likely to contribute to immunosuppression than to mount an effective host anti-tumor response. [