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The impact of low-dose carcinogens and environmental disruptors on tissue invasion and metastasis

Ochieng J , Nangami GN , Ogunkua O , Miousse IR 1 , Koturbash I 1 , Odero-Marah V 2 Show all authors , McCawley LJ 3 , Nangia-Makker P 4 , Ahmed N 5 , Luqmani Y 6 , Chen Z , Papagerakis S 7 , Wolf GT 7 , Dong C 8 , Zhou BP 8 , Brown DG 9 , Colacci AM 10 , Hamid RA 11 , Mondello C 12 , Raju J 13 , Ryan EP 9 , Woodrick J 14 , Scovassi AI 12 , Singh N 15 , Vaccari M 10 , Roy R 14 , Forte S 16 , Memeo L 16 , Salem HK 17 , Amedei A 18 , Al-Temaimi R 6 , Al-Mulla F 6 , Bisson WH 19 , Eltom SE

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA
  • 2 Department of Biology/Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 30314, USA
  • 3 Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
  • 4 Department of Pathology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
  • 5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • 6 Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pathology, Kuwait University, Safat 13110, Kuwait
  • 7 Department of Otolaryngology, University of Michigan Medical College, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  • 8 Department of Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
  • 9 Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences/Food Science and Human Nutrition, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University/Colorado School of Public Health, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1680, USA
  • 10 Center for Environmental Carcinogenesis and Risk Assessment, Environmental Protection and Health Prevention Agency, Bologna 40126, Italy
  • 11 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia
  • 12 Istituto di Genetica Molecolare, CNR, via Abbiategrasso 207, 27100 Pavia, Italy
  • 13 Toxicology Research Division, Bureau of Chemical Safety Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A0K9, Canada
  • 14 Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA
  • 15 Centre for Advanced Research, King George's Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226003, India
  • 16 Mediterranean Institute of Oncology, Viagrande 95029, Italy
  • 17 Urology Department, kasr Al-Ainy School of Medicine, Cairo University, El Manial, Cairo 12515, Egypt
  • 18 Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Firenze, Firenze 50134, Italy and
  • 19 Environmental and Molecular Toxicology, Environmental Health Sciences Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Carcinogenesis, 2015 Jun;36 Suppl 1:S128-59.
PMID: 26106135 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/bgv034

Abstract

The purpose of this review is to stimulate new ideas regarding low-dose environmental mixtures and carcinogens and their potential to promote invasion and metastasis. Whereas a number of chapters in this review are devoted to the role of low-dose environmental mixtures and carcinogens in the promotion of invasion and metastasis in specific tumors such as breast and prostate, the overarching theme is the role of low-dose carcinogens in the progression of cancer stem cells. It is becoming clearer that cancer stem cells in a tumor are the ones that assume invasive properties and colonize distant organs. Therefore, low-dose contaminants that trigger epithelial-mesenchymal transition, for example, in these cells are of particular interest in this review. This we hope will lead to the collaboration between scientists who have dedicated their professional life to the study of carcinogens and those whose interests are exclusively in the arena of tissue invasion and metastasis.

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