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NATURE REVIEWS CANCER
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 563-572Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3978
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- United States National Institutes of Health [CA083639, CA098258, CA104825, CA109298, CA116778, CA140933, CA151668, CA177909, AG017265, AG033590]
- Department of Defense [OC120547, OC093416]
- Betty Ann Asche Murray Distinguished Professorship
- Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas [CPRIT RP140106]
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation
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The peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) is known to regulate gene expression in primary tumours and their surrounding microenvironment. Activation of the sympathetic division of the ANS in particular modulates gene expression programmes that promote metastasis of solid tumours by stimulating macrophage infiltration, inflammation, angiogenesis, epithelial-mesenchymal transition and tumour invasion, and by inhibiting cellular immune responses and programmed cell death. Haematological cancers are modulated by sympathetic nervous system (SNS) regulation of stem cell biology and haematopoietic differentiation programmes. In addition to identifying a molecular basis for physiologic stress effects on cancer, these findings have also identified new pharmacological strategies to inhibit cancer progression in vivo.
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