How to Inflame Cancer Growth / Cell, July 13, 2017 (Vol. 170, Issue 2)

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Cancer cells are surrounded by normal cells like fibroblasts and immune cells, but can they be corrupted to promote growth of a tumor? In this video abstract, Andy Minn and his colleagues explain how breast cancer cells instruct stromal cells in the tumor environment to produce a form of RNA that triggers an inflammatory response that helps cancer cell to grow and become resistant to therapies. Check out the paper at:  http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30716-X.

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