Hallmarks of cancer: The next generation

Hanahan, D; Weinberg, RA

HERO ID

758924

Reference Type

Journal Article

Subtype

Review

Year

2011

Language

English

PMID

21376230

HERO ID 758924
Material Type Review
In Press No
Year 2011
Title Hallmarks of cancer: The next generation
Authors Hanahan, D; Weinberg, RA
Journal Cell
Volume 144
Issue 5
Page Numbers 646-674
Abstract The hallmarks of cancer comprise six biological capabilities acquired during the multistep development of human tumors. The hallmarks constitute an organizing principle for rationalizing the complexities of neoplastic disease. They include sustaining proliferative signaling, evading growth suppressors, resisting cell death, enabling replicative immortality, inducing angiogenesis, and activating invasion and metastasis. Underlying these hallmarks are genome instability, which generates the genetic diversity that expedites their acquisition, and inflammation, which fosters multiple hallmark functions. Conceptual progress in the last decade has added two emerging hallmarks of potential generality to this list-reprogramming of energy metabolism and evading immune destruction. In addition to cancer cells, tumors exhibit another dimension of complexity: they contain a repertoire of recruited, ostensibly normal cells that contribute to the acquisition of hallmark traits by creating the "tumor microenvironment." Recognition of the widespread applicability of these concepts will increasingly affect the development of new means to treat human cancer.
Doi 10.1016/j.cell.2011.02.013
Pmid 21376230
Wosid WOS:000288007100007
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Language Text English
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