As man has moved rapidly from the hunter–gatherer environment to the living conditions of
the industrialized countries, the incidences of some cancers have increased alarmingly …

Several studies have shown that persistent infections and inflammation can favor
carcinogenesis. At the same time, certain types of pathogens and antitumor immune …

Homeostasis in the immune system depends on a balance between the responses that
control infection and tumour growth and the reciprocal responses that prevent inflammation …

Clinical and experimental data now clearly indicate that chronic inflammation significantly
contributes to cancer development. Emerging out of these studies is an appreciation that …

Chronic inflammation caused by persistent infections and metabolic disorders is thought to
contribute to the increased cancer risk and the accelerated cancer progression. Oppositely …

Estimating human cancer risk based on host‐environment interaction is one task of
epidemiology, and it has provided indispensable knowledge for prevention of cancer. The …

Recent scientific advances have contributed much to the dissection of the complex
molecular and cellular pathways involved in the connection between cancer and …

Inflammation is a fundamental innate immune response to perturbed tissue homeostasis.
Chronic inflammatory processes affect all stages of tumour development as well as therapy …

Tumour-promoting inflammation is considered one of the enabling characteristics of cancer
development. Chronic inflammatory disease increases the risk of some cancers, and strong …

Chronic viral infections and malignant tumours induce T cells that have a reduced ability to
secrete effector cytokines and have upregulated expression of the inhibitory receptor PD1 …