Finding a Missing Link: Scientists show a new connection between inflammation and cancer

For more than 100 years, researchers have sought links between inflammation and cancer. Now, a team of scientists studying gastrointestinal cancer in mice presents powerful evidence of a molecular connection between those conditions.

In two experiments, researchers at the University of California, San Diego showed that deactivating a protein called I-kappa-B kinase beta (IKK-beta) inside cells stops cancer progression in its tracks.