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Review
. 2024 Oct 16;38(17-20):814-816.
doi: 10.1101/gad.352300.124.

Bridging brain and body in cancer

Michael Cross  1   2 , Andrew Dillin  3   4   5 , Thales Papagiannakopoulos  6   7
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Review

Bridging brain and body in cancer

Michael Cross et al. Genes Dev. .

Abstract

Recent work has highlighted the central role the brain-body axis plays in not only maintaining organismal homeostasis but also coordinating the body's response to immune and inflammatory insults. Here, we discuss how science is poised to address the many ways that our brain is directly involved with disease. In particular, we feel that combining cutting-edge tools in neuroscience with translationally relevant models of cancer will be critical to understanding how the brain and tumors communicate and modulate each other's behavior.

Keywords: brain–body; physiology; symposium.

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