Therapeutics targeting innate immune/inflammatory responses through the interleukin-6/JAK/STAT signal transduction pathway in patients with cancer

Roxburgh, C. and McMillan, D. (2016) Therapeutics targeting innate immune/inflammatory responses through the interleukin-6/JAK/STAT signal transduction pathway in patients with cancer. Translational Research, 167(1), pp. 61-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.trsl.2015.08.013) (PMID:26432924)

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Abstract

Over the last 15 years, there has been an evolution in the thinking of how tumors grow and disseminate: from the earlier work where it was considered that the intrinsic characteristics of the tumor largely determined the process to more recent work where local and systemic inflammatory responses play a key role in disease progression and survival in patients with cancer. Although the immune/inflammatory responses to cancer are complex, it is clear that targeting the host immune/inflammatory responses (in particular, innate/humoral responses) has considerable potential to improve outcomes in patients with a variety of common solid tumors. There are a wide variety of agents from the nonselective glucocorticoids to the selective Janus Activated Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription (JAK/STAT) inhibitors that has considerable therapeutic potential. They may be considered to act through a main signal transduction mechanism, the interleukin-6/JAK/STAT pathway. This work heralds a new era in which it will be important not only to treat the tumor but also to treat the host, so called oncoimmunology.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Roxburgh, Professor Campbell and McMillan, Professor Donald
Authors: Roxburgh, C., and McMillan, D.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing
Journal Name:Translational Research
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1931-5244
ISSN (Online):1878-1810

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