Smith, Gary Robert and Missailidis, Sotiris
(2009).
Learning from cancer: the adaptive growth, wound and immune responses.
Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology, 13(A),
pp. 158–185.
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Abstract
The life cycle of cancer, and solid tumours in particular, can be usefully simplified into two phases of the disease; the earlier phase where change in intracellular processes is required for carcinogenesis and the later phase, malignancy, where the continued development of the cancer relies on the support of extra-cellular processes. From this systems view of cancer and the failure modes of healthy biological processes associated with it, a three-vector portrayal of cellular dynamics is abstracted. This overarching framework for the direction of biosystem responses places the categorisation of disease at the extreme points of these vectors and provides an explanation for their cause. Furthermore, laboratory and clinical evidence suggests that a synergistic systems approach to disease management, based on the manipulation of these vectors, could lead to new paradigms in treatment.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
Not known |
| ISSN: |
1529-9120 |
| Keywords: |
cancer; inflammation; immunity; angiotensin; AT1 receptors; AT1 inhibitors; ACE inhibitors; oxidative stress; hypoxia;
wound; growth |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Science > Life, Health and Chemical Sciences |
| Item ID: |
26022 |
| Depositing User: |
Sotiris Missailidis
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| Date Deposited: |
06 Jan 2011 15:19 |
| Last Modified: |
26 Oct 2012 00:31 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26022 |
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