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ReviewCancers2025

The Role of Chronic Inflammation in Pediatric Cancer.

Christine Mella, Panogiotis Tsarouhas, Maximillian Brockwell, Hope C Ball

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Review in Cancers, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Christine MellaDivision of Hematology Oncology, Akron Children's Hospital, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH 44308, USA.
Panogiotis TsarouhasDepartment of Biology, The University of Akron, 302 Buchtel Common, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
Maximillian BrockwellCollege of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, 4029 State Route 44, Rootstown, OH 44272, USA.
Hope C BallDivision of Hematology Oncology, Akron Children's Hospital, One Perkins Square, Akron, OH 44308, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammation plays a crucial role in wound healing and the host immune response following pathogenic invasion. However, unresolved chronic inflammation can result in tissue fibrosis and genetic alterations that contribute to the pathogenesis of human diseases such as cancer. Recent scientific advancements exploring the underlying mechanisms of malignant cellular transformations and cancer progression have exposed significant disparities between pediatric and adult-onset cancers. For instance, pediatric cancers tend to have lower mutational burdens and arise in actively developing tissues, where cell-cycle dysregulation leads to gene, chromosomal, and fusion gene development not seen in adult-onset counterparts. As such, scientific findings in adult cancers cannot be directly applied to pediatric cancers, where unique mutations and inherent etiologies remain poorly understood. Here, we review the role of chronic inflammation in processes of genetic and chromosomal instability, the tumor microenvironment, and immune response that result in pediatric tumorigenesis transformation and explore current and developing therapeutic interventions to maintain and/or restore inflammatory homeostasis.

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cancerepigeneticsimmunologyinflammationtherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID39796780
PMCPMC11719864

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