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Cancer-related inflammation, the seventh hallmark of cancer: links to genetic instability.

F. Colotta, P. Allavena, A. Sica, C. Garlanda, A. Mantovani

2009.7.1CARCINOGENESIS

DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgp127

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This work surmises that CRI represents the seventh hallmark of cancer, and suggests that an additional mechanism involved in cancer-related inflammation (CRI) is induction of genetic instability by inflammatory mediators, leading to accumulation of random genetic alterations in cancer cells.

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COLOTTA, F., et al. Cancer-related inflammation, the seventh hallmark of cancer: Links to genetic instability. CARCINOGENESIS, 2009, 30 7: 1073–81.