Tumors produce glucocorticoids by metabolite recycling, not synthesis, and activate Tregs to promote growth.

Growth of Hsd11b1 -deficient tumors was modestly reduced at late time points, but to a much lesser extent than in WT mice ( Figure 2A ), and did not reach statistical significance ( P = 0.17) ( Supplemental Figure 5B ).

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