title: Introduction to the Cellular and Molecular Biology of Cancer
author:  Margaret A. Knowles 
description: <br />"This book will be much appreciated by newcomers to cancer biology and will provide a concise and thought-provoking review for experts in the field."--<em>Quarterly Review of Biology</em>
zlib_text: cancers
  Review
  Are Synapse-Like Structures a Possible Way for
  Crosstalk of Cancer with Its Microenvironment?
  Irina V Alekseenko 1,2,3, Igor P Chernov 1, Sergei V Kostrov 2 and Eugene D Sverdlov 2,*
  1
  Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
  117997 Moscow, Russia; irina.alekseenko@mail.ru (I.V.A.); igor_ch@ibch.ru (I.P.C.)
  2
  Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123182 Moscow, Russia; kostrov@img.ras.ru
  3
  FSBI «National Medical Research Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after
  Academician V.I. Kulakov» Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, 117198 Moscow, Russia
  *
  Correspondence: edsverd@gmail.com
  Received: 14 February 2020; Accepted: 25 March 2020; Published: 27 March 2020
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  Abstract: The failure of therapies directed at targets within cancer cells highlight the necessity for
  a paradigm change in cancer therapy. The attention of researchers has shifted towards th