Research topic
An ecosystem of malignant, immune, stromal, vascular, neural, and extracellular components with tissue-specific differences.
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Research at the intersection of neurodevelopment, glioma biology, neural activity, tumor microenvironment signaling, cancer neuroscience, and mechanism-guided therapies.
9 lessons · ~50 minutes
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Cancer as a Neural Circuit Disease
The tumor microenvironment: a tumor is an ecosystemDescribe a tumor as interacting malignant and nonmalignant populations.
Supports: Tumor microenvironment
Cancer Cell · 2023
Hanahan D, Monje M
Why this matters: A perspective placing neural components in the tumor ecosystem, not declaring a new official hallmark.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccell.2023.02.012