title: Transforming the microenvironment: a trick of the metastatic cancer cell.
abstract: Creating a permissive microenvironment is a strategy employed by tumor cells to disseminate. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Yang et al. identify the molecular signaling events that connect hepatitis infection with TGFβ activity and T regulatory cell recruitment to establish a favorable microenvironment for tumor metastasis.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Anuradha
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Budhu
authors.forename: Xin Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Wang