title: Chemokines and cancer: a fatal attraction.
abstract: Chemokines are important components of cancer-related inflammation. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Chen et al. report that the chemokine CCL18, produced by tumor-associated macrophages, promotes malignant behavior and correlates with metastasis in human breast cancer. Unexpectedly, PITPNM3/Nir1, a molecule unrelated to chemokine receptors, was identified as its elusive receptor.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Clinico Humanitas, IRCCS, I-20089 Rozzano (Milan), Italy.
authors.forename: Raffaella
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bonecchi
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Locati
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mantovani