The positional probability and cell-CAM-ECM interface (module) in the fractal framework helped us decipher cancer spatiotemporal dynamics; in addition we modeled the methods of cancer control by manipulating the microenvironment plasticity or inhibiting the CAM expression to the Pólya random walk, Pólya constant.
Finally, we can demonstrate that the silencing of PAX2 led to an L1-CAM-dependent activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway, one important pathway mediating cancer cell survival.
Previous studies have shown that the expression of the cell-cell adhesion molecule (C-CAM1), located at chromosome 19, is down-regulated in several types of human cancers, including prostate and breast cancers.
Our results suggest that the CALM-AF10 fusion gene is a constant feature and is involved in the pathogenesis of haematological malignancies with t(10;11)(p13-14;q14-21), showing various and often multilineage phenotypes.
Whether its expression and the observed antigenic heterogeneity is just a manifestation of malignancy or N-CAM may play a role in the biology of multiple myeloma regarding tumour cell spread, remains to be explained.