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Weapon used by police suppresses crime.

Weapon in the wrong hands

BS Chung (anatomy.co.kr)

Weapon used by criminal promotes crime.

TNF used by tumor cells promotes tumor itself.

This phenomenon should be considered in planning tumor treatment.

Likewise, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) used

by white blood cells suppresses tumor.

White blood cells

Tumor TNF

Freeze! I can resist police agents by using weapon.

I can resist antitumor agents by using TNF.

I can’t resist!

TNF

J Korean Med Sci. 2020 Feb 10;35(5):e52 https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e52 eISSN 1598-6357·pISSN 1011-8934

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Received: Jan 20, 2020 Accepted: Jan 23, 2020 Address for Correspondence:

Beom Sun Chung, MD

Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164 World Cup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea.

E-mail: [email protected]

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ORCID iD Beom Sun Chung

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3644-9120 Disclosure

The author has no potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

Beom Sun Chung

Department of Anatomy, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

Weapon in the Wrong Hands

► See the article “Involvement of the TNF-α Pathway in TKI Resistance and TNFR1 as a Predictive Biomarker for TKI Responsiveness in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma” in volume 35, number 5, e31.