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SUBMITTER: Segatto I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4171628 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Segatto Ilenia I Berton Stefania S Sonego Maura M Massarut Samuele S Perin Tiziana T Piccoli Erica E Colombatti Alfonso A Vecchione Andrea A Baldassarre Gustavo G Belletti Barbara B
Oncotarget 20140801 15
Inflammation is clinically linked to cancer but the mechanisms are not fully understood. Surgery itself elicits a range of inflammatory responses, suggesting that it could represent a perturbing factor in the process of local recurrence and/or metastasis. Post-surgery wound fluids (WF), drained from breast cancer patients, are rich in cytokines and growth factors, stimulate the in vitro growth of breast cancer cells and are potent activators of the STAT transcription factors. We wondered whether ...[more]