Inflammatory genes and Lung cancer

Cancer-related inflammation remains a significant challenge to healthcare providers as well as to investigators studying the basic mechanisms underlying tumorigenesis. Largely because the pathogenesis of inflammation-associated cancer is incompletely understood there are currently limited therapeutic techniques for modifying cancers that occur in the setting of chronic inflammation. The accumulating evidence links a wide variety of chronic inflammatory conditions to diverse groups of cancers including lung cancer providing firm support for the role of inflammation associated cancer as an important event in the pathogenesis of cancer. It may even be the seventh hallmark of cancer as suggested by Mantovani et al. 2009.