JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, cilt.106, sa.8, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Background In neural invasion (NI), cancer cells are classically assumed to actively invade nerves and to cause local recurrence and pain. However, the opposite possibility, that nerves may reach cancer cells even in their preinvasive stage and thereby promote cancer spread, has not yet been genuinely considered. The present study analyzes the reaction of Schwann cells of peripheral nerves to carcinogenesis in pancreatic cancer and colon cancer.