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Inflammation and cancer: friend or foe?

Andrés David Turizo Smith; Samantha Córdoba-Hernandez; Lidy Vannessa Mejía-Guarnizo; Paula Stefany Monroy-Camacho; Josefa Antonia Rodríguez-García

Frontiers in Pharmacology · 2024

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Summary

Chronic inflammation plays a crucial role in the onset and progression of pathologies like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and cancer, since tumor development and chronic inflammation are linked, sharing common signaling pathways. At least 20% of breast and colorectal cancers are associated with chronic inflammation triggered by infections, irritants, or autoimmune diseases. Obesity, chronic inflammation, and cancer interconnection underscore the importance of population-based interventions in maintaining healthy body weight, to disrupt this axis. Given that the dietary inflammatory index is correlated with an increased risk of cancer, adopting an anti-inflammatory diet supplemented with nutraceuticals may be useful for cancer prevention. Natural products and their

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3389/fphar.2024.1385479
Catalogue ID
NRmo9zxr64-097
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