Biomarkers of the Tumor Microenvironment

Markers of tumor-vascular interactions.- Extracellular matrix, especially integrins, importance for tumor progression.- Role of Axl for epithelial-mesenchymal transition and tumor spread.- Models of tumour progression in prostate cancer.- Biomarkers of tumor progression in malignant melanoma.- Biomarker signatures and tumor progress in breast cancer.- Biomarker panels and contemporary practice in clinical trials of targeted treatment.- Role of prosaposin in niche regulation and metastatic spread.- Regulators of microenvironment and metastases in prostate cancer.- Semaphorins and angiogenesis.- Heterogeneity of angiogenesis phenotypes.- Biology of metastatic niches.- Lymphangiogenesis and tumor progress.- Extracellular matrix.- Paracrine signalling and tumor progress.- Cancer associated fibroblasts.- Tumor immunology.- Interleukins and inflammatory programs in tumor progress.- Global gene expression signatures of the tumor microenvironment.- Microarray analysis of the tumour microenvironment.- Studies of the tumor microenvironment.