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

How to Inflame Cancer Growth. 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.