Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Microenvironment meets lineage complexity in junctional tumorigenesis

  • Wa Xian,
  • Frank McKeon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11651-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Using a sensitizing genetic model, Moon and colleagues provide compelling data for a determinant role of microenvironment in tumorigenesis, and lend support to the notion that such influences can be pharmacologically dampened to reduce the onset of cancers.