Category: Oncology

The Tumor Microenvironment: Why the Real Action Happens off-Screen

1 A quick scene-setter (coffee optional) Cancer biologists like to call the tumor a “mass.” In reality it behaves more like Times Square on New Year’s Eve: a jostling crowd of tourists (immune cells), cops (fibroblasts), food trucks (blood vessels), pickpockets (cancer-associated macrophages) and the giant LED billboards of cytokines blaring contradictory instructions. That carnival […]