Tumor microenvironment and radioresistance
Suwa Tatsuya, Kobayashi Minoru, 남진민, Harada Hiroshi,
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( Suwa Tatsuya )
Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
( Kobayashi Minoru )
Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
남진민 ( Nam Jin-Min )
Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
( Harada Hiroshi )
Kyoto University Graduate School of Biostudies
Abstract
Metastasis is not the result of a random event, as cancer cells can sustain and proliferate actively only in a suitable tissue microenvironment and then form metastases. Since Dr. Stephen Paget in the United Kingdom proposed the seed and soil hypothesis of cancer metastasis based on the analogy that plant seeds germinate and grow only in appropriate soil, considerable attention has focused on both extracellular environmental factors that affect the growth of cancer cells and the tissue structure that influences the microenvironment. Malignant tumor tissues consist of not only cancer cells but also a wide variety of other cells responsible for the inflammatory response, formation of blood vessels, immune response, and support of the tumor tissue architecture, forming a complex cellular society. It is also known that the amounts of oxygen and nutrients supplied to each cell differ depending on the distance from tumor blood vessels in tumor tissue. Here, we provide an overview of the tumor microenvironment and characteristics of tumor tissues, both of which affect the malignant phenotypes and radioresistance of cancer cells, focusing on the following keywords: diversity of oxygen and nutrient microenvironment in tumor tissue, inflammation, immunity, and tumor vasculature.
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Cancer microenvironment
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