Cancer related death is caused by population aging and stress of unemployment. The absence of cancer in the Eskimos upon his arrival in the Arctic, but a subsequent increase in the incidence of the disease as closer contact with Western civilization is known. Molecular pathogenesis of inhibitory antagonism and disorder in neural phase coordination of reentry, based on a rejection-related distress of unemployment, may lead to the inflammation-induced carcinogenesis. Unemployment leading to cancer pandemic may cause the decay of Western Civilization. In this year China has achieved a several leading positions in science with new supercomputer and research at the field of cancer.
  Keywords: rejection-related distress, lesion of reentry, inhibitory antagonism, genetic polymorphisms, inflammation-derived carcinogenesis, apoptosis-autophagy dichotomy, NF-κB-IL-6-stat3 cascade
  
  
  
 
DAMPs, damage associated molecular pattern molecules; RAGE, receptor for advanced glycation end products; HMG-B1, high mobility group-B1; TGF-β, transforming growth factor-β; TNF, tumor necrosis factor; IL-1, interleukin-1; CNS, central nervous system; CD, causal density; WTAIs, winner takes all instabilities; dACC, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; sTNF-α, soluble receptor for tumor necrosis factor-α; NF-κB, nuclear factor-κB
  
  In our recent study we  have widely employed neural, immune and genetic approach using a hypothesis-driven method. It is  including also the pathway analysis  approach, based on results of a more comprehensive set mediators, genes,  neural regions, etc. involved in a specific functional role of stress and inflammation in cancer.  Also population-based association  studies we use as powerful tools for examining genes with role in common multifactorial diseases that  have a strong environmental component. We  were looking for the strategy of  genetic association studies to discuss the role of genetic polymorphisms that modulate  inflammation and risk of cancer.  Our understanding of relationship between inflammation and cancer is  growing and central role in these processes by our opinion may play a focus on correlative studies. Cancers often  arise as the end stage of inflammation,  in adults, but not in children. Inflammatory cells and soluble factors  are present in all tumors. The  signs of this latent inflammation including tissue remodeling, angiogenesis, and other wound healing-like  features are morphologic cues of invasive cancer. Recent evidence shows that  these processes play a fundamental role in cancer development and progression  and may predict the clinical  behavior of a cancer better than the characteristics of the neoplastic cells themselves.2 
  In preclinical studies antibodies promote cancer development  by initiating local chronic  inflammatory responses mediated by antibody and immuno-complex deposition (in some cases the direct inhibition of Th1 responses by B cells  play also a role). Cancer is a disorder of cellular and tissue architecture and reentry driven by redox and  damage-associated molecular pattern  molecules (DAMPs). Stressed cells release into the tumor  microenvironments DAMPs that interact with their receptors (DAMP-R) as the  receptor for advanced glycation end products  (RAGE) on surviving, stressed cells  within the tumor microenvironment; they drive a disordered tumor microenvironment. The disordered microenvironment  favors tumor cell resistance to  therapy by limiting apoptosis, enhanced  stromagenesis, angiogenesis, and  suppression of the adaptive  immune response. One of hypotheses is that high mobility group B1 molecule (HMGB1) as a DAMP released into  the tumor microenvironment plays a central  role in the growth of tumors by its recruitment and activation of innate  immune cells, with the resulting chronic  inflammatory milieu promoting stromagenesis, angiogenesis, and cell proliferation, enhancing tumor  growth. The critical interface between  tolerance and immunity is dictated by oxidation  or reduction of HMGB1.  First released HMGB1 is reduced and promotes immunity, with resolution of inflammation;  it is oxidized and inactivated, when a transforming  growth factor-β (TGF-β) is activated. Treatments  and targets for inflammation have come to the fore and deserve attention.  Preclinical and correlative studies may provide rationale for targeting factors  and cytokines having a clear impact on inflammation  within cancer, such as HMGB1, the RAGE and IL-1β. Targeting these factors may decrease the  incidence of cancers developing in the setting of chronic inflammation.2 
  The nervous system also modulates immune responses 
  Deficiencies and  excesses of the inflammatory response can  cause morbidity and shorten lifespan: they can lead to infection and cancer.  The inflammatory response may be more dangerous than the original inciting  stimulus. Inflammatory stimuli activate sensory pathways that relay to the hypothalamus. Systemic increase in  tumor-necrosis factor (TNF)  mediates tissue injury by depressing cardiac output, inducing microvascular  thrombosis and mediating systemic capillary leakage syndrome. TNF amplifies and  prolongs the inflammatory response by activating other cells to release both  cytokines: interleukin-1 (IL-1), high mobility group B1 and mediators: reactive  oxygen species, eicosanoids, nitric oxide which promote further inflammation  and tissue injury. TNF is important for the complete expression of inflammation  during invasion. Inflammatory stimuli can activate anti-inflammatory signals  from the central nervous system (CNS). Inflammation in peripheral tissues alters neuronal signaling in the hypothalamus.3 There are evidences of a common molecular basis  for communication, with cells from each system expressing signaling ligands and  receptors from the other.
 
  Synapses between  neuronal units with strongly correlated firing phase are then potentiated and synapses between  neuronal units with weakly correlated phases are inhibited. With reentrant connections intact, distributions for  all neurons are peaked at the same phase. With reentrant lesioned networks (triggered by the distress of unemployment as a consequence of social rejection) the probability  distributions remain flat due to their phase independent input. Phase  correlations between neural units are higher with intact reentrant connections  than in lesion group. Lesions  can be find by a Granger causality analysis, the causal density (cd) of a system can be calculated as
, where α is the total  number of significant causal interaction and
is the total number of directed edges in a fully  connected network with 
nodes, excluding self-connections.4,5 
  Stress, inflammation and cancer: diseases of civilization
  Onset of malignancy may  follow after emotional stress (disease of adaptation to civilization).  Disasters of life, much trouble play role in the causation of cancer (the  uneasy passions of the mind). Emotional factors are more common in sensitive  and frustrated from competition leading to unemployment, lead to mental misery, sudden reverses of fortune, and represent a  powerful cause of the cancer.  The Bernoulli diminishing return  intuition says that there are neural representations transforming their  input (objective value) under a logarithmic  type of nonlinearity. A logarithmic function 
 is used as the  expected utility. Paying a large amount of capacity in a high probability of  making a loss and a small  probability for a high win.6 The output is  subject to additional independent noise of constant variance 
. It can result to reversal effects with higher slope for losses than for gains. The  variance in firing rate of neurons is approximately proportional to the mean  firing rate. It was proposed a typical relationship between the mean and the variance of the inputs as 
. Influence of psychosocial  environmental factors: emotional stress and cancer, envariance,  stressful emotions can exert malignant growth. Unusual amount of self-dislike  and distress (frequent  feelings of hopelessness and helplessness) are also precursors to cancer. Subconsciously repeated same “fight or  flight” responses are no longer appropriate and purposeful, adaptation lead to opportunism, automatic responses to  stress don’t seem to make any sense, form basis for diseases of civilization, (do not serve any useful or rational  adaptive purpose).2,7-11 Development of malignancy is a more dramatic example of opportunism in the evolutionary process. Cancer was rare in antiquity, and it  underscores the role of carcinogenic  environmental factors in modern societies.12
  Emotional distress associated with an anticipated traumatic event 
  Emotional distress associated with an  anticipated traumatic event is often greater  than result of the physical event itself  (self-fulfilling prophecy). Emotional  loss from the distress of unemployment is perceived as even greater stress than a physical  preparation. What may result instead in a new growth in the form of neoplasia, which is malignant and beyond control. Neural regions processing rejection-related  information are involved in inflammatory responding because help mount  preparatory responses to potential physical injury. This is based on overlapping neural circuitry of physical and social pain.14 The ability to  regenerate lost or injured tissue involves something more than a simple local response: repairing the lesion at the  level of neural coordination in reentry!  Statistics in loss of selected  emotional relationships with death of a spouse and divorce providing evidence that stress can cause cancer. Depressed immune system is predisposing  to cancer and explains some stress-related malignancies. It is not a new  experience that cancer like insanity increases in a ratio to the civilization of the country,  civilization is enhancing tendency to  cancer. Asians immigrated to the West later in their life had lower risk  of prostate cancer than compared with the White. Descending the phylogenetic  scale, the incidence of cancer progressively increasing and is absent in primitive forms of life. In increase  of cancer incidence predominates a  competition based on winner-takes-all-instabilities  (WTAIs), leading to the decay of  Civilization. 
  To derive an equation  for the dynamics of the winner-take-all  instability, we express the dynamical variables as 
where 
represents the slow dynamics along the critical  eigenvector and 
is a slow time scale. The reflection symmetry of the  system implies the dynamics of 
should be invariant under the transformation 
and this switches the identity of 
and
. The increase in input 
is common to both 
and 
leads to the developing decision in the  winner-take-all system and is thus the bifurcation parameter. The linear growth  rate of the spontaneous state must be proportional to the difference between  the presynaptic input and the value of the input at the bifurcation with an  unknown prefactor, i.e. 
 The difference  in inputs 
breaks the reflection symmetry thereby introducing a  constant term which, to first approximation, must be proportional to that  difference with an unknown prefactor, i.e. 
 These two  facts, coupled with the reflection symmetry, lead to the form of the equation  describing the time evolution of 
, where 
only when 
identically, i.e. at point of genome instability, and 
is a time derivative with respect to the slow time 
. For 
the equation is invariant under 
as it should be, 
is the lowest order nonlinearity which obeys reflection  symmetry. For more complex systems, which exhibit winner-take-all behavior, above equation captures the qualitative  dynamics of the system near the bifurcation in general? In landmark experiments  inhibition of apoptosis and  autophagy in renal epithelial cells leads to increased necrotic cell death, genomic instability, inflammation, and  rapid development of cancer. We  are threatened with death from cancer for our inability to adapt to actual civilized living conditions, neural lesion in reentry triggered by the distress of unemployment, have implications for an increase in  some malignancies as of psychosocial  carcinogenesis. Stress-induced  inflammation is implicated in serious disorders including depression and  cancer, etc. Now we are beginning to know also the neurocognitive pathways in inflammatory responses to stress. Psychological stress has been underestimated for long period of time  as possible causal factor in development of cancer. Animal and human research  has shown that especially social  stressors are very strong triggers of inflammation.
  Stress with threat of social rejection up-regulate inflammatory activity
  Stress with threat of social rejection up-regulate  inflammatory activity. Neural regions involved in processing rejection-related distress may relate  to individual’s magnitude of inflammatory responses to social stress. These  brain regions include the dorsal  anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and the anterior insula. Greater activity in dACC has been associated  with greater self-reported feelings of social distress. Neural regions  associated with social rejection-related distress play role in inflammatory  responses to stressors involving elements of social-evaluative threat and rejection. Greater activity in the dACC and bilateral anterior  insula during social exclusion was  associated with greater soluble  receptor for tumor necrosis  factor 
 (sTNF
RII) responses to the laboratory-based stressor.  Greater activity in the right anterior insula was related to increase in interleukin-6 (IL-6). Inflammatory cytokines are released in response to risk of  assault because can accelerate wound healing, reduce risk of infection, limit  transmission of pathogens to others, and reduce risk for additional conflict. Neural  encoding of peripheral inflammation gives to the para-limbic structures the ability to modulate inflammatory  activity. Both, the ACC and the anterior insula have extensive efferent  connections to the hypothalamus, enabling  to influence inflammatory activity via endocrine pathways. These regions  project also to brainstem autonomic  control nuclei, by which peripheral inflammatory processes can be  regulated by sympathetic and parasympathetic activity. Individual differences  in magnitude of inflammatory responses to distress of unemployment help to explain the variability observed  in susceptibility to disorders with an inflammatory component in certain types  of cancer and depression. Growing number of studies  of emotional stimuli showing  that the dACC and anterior insula are primary  sites Slavich et al.13 of stress-related  inhibitory antagonism Gold et al.14 activation.
  Molecular pathogenesis of inhibitory antagonism
  The environment is  conductive to the growth of other bacteria within the gastric milieu, leading  to sustained inflammation and oxidative/genotoxic stress. The  cancer represents a classic example of inflammation-induced  malignancy. Nuclear factor-
B (NF-
B) and Stat3 proteins are transcriptional factors,  which integrate stress signals and  orchestrate immune responses also linked to carcinogenesis. NF-
B and Stat3 control the expression of anti-apoptotic,  pro-proliferative and immune response genes. These genes partly overlap and show transcriptional cooperation and inhibition between the two factors.  Activation and interaction between NF-
B and Stat3 plays a key role in control of the dialog between the malignant cell and its microenvironment, with  inflammatory/immune cells that infiltrate tumors. Cytokines induced in response  to NF-
B in immune cells of the tumor microenvironment lead  to Stat3 activation in both malignant  and immune cells. Within malignant and pre-malignant cells Stat3 activates oncogenic functions; within  inflammatory cells it may also suppress  tumor promotion through its anti-inflammatory effects. Crosstalk between NF-
B and Stat3 include cooperation of these factors at gene promoters/enhancers. NF-
B dependent expression inhibitors of Stat3 activation and participation of Stat3 in  inflammatory cells the negative regulation  of NF-
B. Despite these variable and antagonistic interactions,  NF-
B and Stat3 cooperate to promote the development and progression of colon, gastric, and  liver cancers. The proliferative  and survival effects of IL-6 are mediated by the transcription factor Stat3. The NF-
B-IL-6-Stat3 cascade is an important regulator  of inhibitory antagonism.
  Neurons in the CNS can synthesize and express TNF  and IL-1. These cytokines may participate on neuronal communication, which is bi-directional. Cytokines can activate  hypothalamic-pituitary release of glucocorticoids and, in turn, glucocorticoids suppress further  cytokine synthesis. Cells of the immune system can produce neuropeptides  (endorphins), acetylcholine and other neurotransmitters. Cytokines and  glucocorticoids are also part of the  inhibitory antagonism’s cascade leading from stress to inflammation and  cancer. The values of 
 and 
 are transformed  through a nonlinear activation function 
before they inhibit  each other:
 integration  starts from 
, an input unit with mean activity 
, and independent white noise fluctuations 
 of amplitude 
. The next part of the inhibitory antagonism’s cascade, when these units also inhibit each other with a connection weight
, 
 denotes the  decay rate of the accumulated activity (leak), 
means the number of alternatives. Performance and  dynamics of choice models suggests that in some cases the balance of inhibition and decay is not optimizing  the performance, but rather it may be more profitable increase the inhibition parameter 
, which increase  inhibition of accumulators 
, 
, 
 and thus prevent from the competition with 
 and 
 (for 
alternatives).6 This  type of preemptive discrimination in favor of ‘pointer states’, which is  suppressing further competitive behavior, is known from the Quantum Darwinism  as a mechanism of “inquisition”.15,16
  Genetic polymorphisms directly influence  the magnitude of cytokine response 
  Genetic polymorphisms directly influence inter individual variation  in the magnitude of cytokine response and contribute to an individual’s clinical outcome. Proinflammatory  genotypes like 
 gene cluster  polymorphism (
encoding
) enhances the risk of cancer progressively so that by  time 3-4 of the polymorphisms present, the ratio of gastric cancer increases 27-fold.2 H. pylori are a prerequisite for the  association of the polymorphisms with  malignancy shows that inflammation is indeed driving carcinogenesis. Another part of the inhibitory antagonism  mechanism is a paradoxical apoptosis-autophagy  dichotomy in tumorigenesis and tumor progression. Autophagy contributes to “programmed cell survival” balancing and  counter-regulating apoptosis.  Alike the polycomb and trithorax group proteins having opposing effects on chromatin, and either inhibit or respectively  activate gene expression in tumor biology.17 Neural regulation of  inflammation depend from cholinergic  inhibition of TNF, evidence indicates that these neural  anti-inflammatory mechanisms also inhibit  the release of IL-1, IL-18 and HMGB1.3 Loss  of endogenous anti-inflammatory mechanisms converts normally protective,  self-limited inflammatory response into an excessive, potentially deleterious  response.
  Envariance of the microenvironment at atomic level
  The state of composite  object (consisting of the system 
 and the  environment
) can be ignorant of the state of 
 alone.  Environment-assisted invariance, or envariance  (at atomic level) based on symmetry  allows observer to use perfect knowledge of 
 as a proof  of his ignorance of
: when a
 acting on 
alone, can be undone by a transformation acting solely  on
, and the joint state of 
 is unchanged.  This state is said “envariant” with respect to
. Envariant properties not belong 
alone. Entanglement between 
 and 
 enables  envariant and implies ignorance about
. Envariance is associated with phases of the Schmidt decomposition of  the state representing
. It anticipates the consequences of environment  induced superselection (“einselection”) of the preferred set of pointer states;  they remain unperturbed to immersion of the system in the environment. The  state of combined 
 expressed in  the Schmidt form is: 
. Schmidt states are in an intimate relationship with  the pointer states and have been regarded as “instantaneous pointer states”.18  Quantum Darwinism brings new focus on the  environment as a communication channel. This explains the emergence  of objectivity. Even hazy environment will communicate a very clear image.15 The  CNS receives sensory input from the immune system through both humoral and neural routes. The immune system detects microbial invasion and  produces molecules that relay information to brain. TNF and other immunological  mediators can gain access to brain centers devoid in the circumventricular  region. 
  Somatic sensory input into the CNS is organized  somatotopically
  Somatic sensory input  into the CNS is organized somatotopically (sensory input from a discrete  peripheral site is localized precisely in the ascending fibre pathway and  brain). The first synapse for afferent vagus signals is in the nucleus tractus solitarius, and lesioning of this region impairs the  development of IL-1-induced fever. The  role for value-dependent synaptic activity differs from the value-independent  rule in that additional term, based on the activity and phase of the value  system, modulates the synaptic strength changes. The synaptic change for  value-dependent synaptic plasticity is: 
 where 
is the mean activity level in the value area 
at the time
. 
function is different from the 
function above in that it uses the phase difference between area 
 and the postsynaptic  neuronal unit as input,
, where 
is the mean phase in area 
. When the both 
and 
 return to  negative number, 
 is set to 1 to  ensure the synaptic connection is not  potentiated when both the presynaptic neuronal unit and value system are  out of phase with the  postsynaptic neuronal unit. Direct stimulation of the efferent vagus nerve inhibits the synthesis of  TNF in spleen and attenuates serum concentration of TNF during endotoxemia .3 Inflammation-derived  sensory input can be processed differentially in the brain, depending on the  location of the inflammatory site and the character of the sensory signal. Vagus  nerve activity can be relayed to medullary  reticular formation, to the  locus ceruleus and hypothalamus,  leading to increased release of ACTH from anterior pituitary.
 
  Manifestation of the  inflammatory microenvironment is suppression  of anti-tumor immune responses. Chronic  inflammation promotes tumor development  and is not the one response but instead represents a dynamic, continuously changing microenvironmental process  with various effects at subsequent stages of tumorigenesis. Multiple factors in both the host and the malignant  cells, the malignancy has impact  on the inflammatory response and  vice versa. Understanding these factors, and their relationship to treatment  response, is including also a study of the  unemployment distress. If we continue to close eyes over the role of  unemployment in cancer pandemic, it will lead to decay of Western Civilization in relatively short time. In this  year 2010 China has achieved a  global leading position in science with new supercomputer and research at the  field of cancer.20 We hypothesize that this  puzzling increase in the incidence of cancer may be related to stress of civilization. Molecular pathogenesis of inhibitory  antagonism and lesion in reentry  (neural phase coordination) based on a rejection-related distress during competition may lead to the  inflammation-derived carcinogenesis. Mechanism is triggered by  interactive behavior of an appraisal of unit P probabilities trade-off with environment. In a job-interview with  100 subjects, 1 of them will be the winner, and the 99 losers may get rejection-induced inflammations (precursor of cancer). Hypertrophy of one competition model: the winner-take-all type of  competition is becoming less adaptive in 21st  century because lead to serious diseases including stress, inflammation and cancer.