Cytokines and their relationship to the symptoms and outcome of cancer / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

Cytokines can have either pro-or anti-inflammatory activity and immunosuppressive activity,depending on the microenvironment.Tumors contain immune cells and a network of pro-and anti-inflammatory cytokines,which collaborate in the development and progression of cancer.Cytokine might prove to be prognostic.The systemic effects of pro-inflammatory cytokines are associated with fatigue,depression,cognitive impairment,anorexia,cachexia,pain,toxicity of treatment and resistance to treatment,which can affect quality of life.