It is now becoming very clear that the development and
progression of tumor towards the malignant (metastatic) phenotype
depends tightly on the interaction between the tumor cells and the
tumor microenvironment. Tumor cells respond to stimuli generated
within the tumor microenvironment for their growth advantage while
the tumor cell themselves reshape and remodel the architecture and
function of their extracellular matrices. The term tumor
microenvironment is a wide umbrella consisting of stromal cells
such as fibroblasts and endothelial cells and infiltration immune
cells including T and B cells, macrophages, and other inflammatory
cells (PMNs). These different components of the tumor
microenvironment could have stimulatory and inhibitory effects on
tumor progression by regulating the gene expression repertoire
within the tumor cells on one hand and the stroma cells on the
other. In this volume we have seven contributors who will discuss
several different aspects on the cross talk within the tumor
microenvironment components leading to the acquisition of the
metastatic phenotype. It is our hope that these state-of-the-art
studies will shed further light on our understanding of these
complicated processes.
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