Journal
CANCERS
Volume 13, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers13153653
Keywords
cancer; metastasis; genomic analysis; microenvironment; tumor ecology; game theory
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Cancer is a complex disease that is gradually being understood through modern molecular technologies. Viewing cancer as a social dysfunction in a community of individuals has provided new perspectives for analysis with promising results. This narrative focuses on analyzing the metastatic process from two different perspectives, molecular and ecological, using clear cell renal cell carcinoma as a model.
Simple Summary Cancer is a complex disease. Modern molecular technologies are progressively unveiling its genetic and epigenetic complexity, but still many key issues remain unknown. Considering cancer as a social dysfunction in a community of individuals has provided new perspectives of analysis with promising results. This narrative considers both approaches with respect to the metastatic process, the final cause of death in most patients affected by this disease. This overview focuses on two different perspectives to analyze the metastatic process taking clear cell renal cell carcinoma as a model, molecular and ecological. On the one hand, genomic analyses have demonstrated up to seven different constrained routes of tumor evolution and two different metastatic patterns. On the other hand, game theory applied to cell encounters within a tumor provides a sociological perspective of the possible behaviors of individuals (cells) in a collectivity. This combined approach provides a more comprehensive understanding of the complex rules governing a neoplasm.
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