Twentieth Annual Pezcoller Symposium: Molecular Biology of Cancer-20 Years of Progress Punctuated by the Pezcoller Symposia

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Introduction:This 20th Anniversary Symposium, which also honored the American Association for Cancer Research in its 100th Anniversary, was held in Trento, Italy, on June 11 to 13, 2008, and was co-chaired by Enrico Mihich, David Livingston (Dana-Farber Cancer institute, Boston, MA), and Marco Pierotti (Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy). Discussions were made on molecular biology of cancer cells, the role of tumor microenvironment in tumor progression, genetic and epigenetic determinants of cancer cell biology, proliferation controls, novel target therapeutics, and signal transduction mechanisms. The identification of new sites of potential intervention was a major focus of this symposium