IL1B and colon adenocarcinoma: The factors affecting CD59 expression in this setting remain to be clarified, although the inflammatory milieu may represent the answer also for this event, since Bjorge et al. reported that two key pro-inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha, induce the expression of CD59 in human colonic adenocarcinoma cells [47].