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Editorial
. 2019 Mar;11(3):632-635.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2019.02.37.

Dietary myo-inositol chemoprevents lung carcinogenesis via boosting immune system in Kras mouse model

Raziye Piranlioglu  1 , Hasan Korkaya  1 , Khaled A Hassan  2
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Editorial

Dietary myo-inositol chemoprevents lung carcinogenesis via boosting immune system in Kras mouse model

Raziye Piranlioglu et al. J Thorac Dis. 2019 Mar.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1
Myo-inositol, a sugar alcohol, shows a strong chemopreventive activity in KRAS driven-lung cancer model of CC-LR mice by reducing circulating IL-6 levels and by switching to anti-tumoral M1 macrophages. IL-6, interleukin 6.
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