title: Hypoxia, inflammation, and the tumor microenvironment in metastatic disease.
abstract: Metastasis, the leading cause of cancer deaths, is an intricate process involving many important tumor and stromal proteins that have yet to be fully defined. This review discusses critical components necessary for the metastatic cascade, including hypoxia, inflammation, and the tumor microenvironment. More specifically, this review focuses on tumor cell and stroma interactions, which allow cell detachment from a primary tumor, intravasation to the blood stream, and extravasation at a distant site where cells can seed and tumor metastases can form. Central players involved in this process and discussed in this review include integrins, matrix metalloproteinases, and soluble growth factors/matrix proteins, including the connective tissue growth factor and lysyl oxidase.
authors.affiliation: Division of Radiation and Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Finger
authors.forename: Amato J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Giaccia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015687:Cell Hypoxia / Q000502:physiology*; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
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