Cancer, Inflammation and Immunity - Harnessing the Body’s Defenses to Fight Cancer
Type
Blog Post
Published
July 6, 2017, 1:59 p.m.
...tumor-associated inflammation for therapeutic benefit ”as stated by the organizers.
My overall impression from...The conference opened with a very interesting presentation by Professor Guido Kroemer from the Institut...cancer treatment (Ref 1). As described in the presentation, starvation or the use of caloric restriction...hepatocellular carcinoma, a cancer which can develop from a state of chronic hepatitis caused by hypernutrition and...consumption. Chronic inflammation is a dangerous state for the body to be in and usually self-limiting ...effects kick in trying to resolve the inflammatory state by inducing immunosuppressive measures, for example...immunosuppressive environment in turn may represent a favorable state for tumor progression (Ref 2). Future treatments...