about involvement of COX-2 in cancer development.
that is link may-be will be useful for you http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v126/n1/abs/5700014a.html;jsessionid=23B93A64EAC5B80D6194A7E0099EC13E
and you can easily find a lot of articles related to cancer, COX-2 and prostaglandins in pubmed.
as to infection, bacteria entered into our body and provoke inflammation, if we will not control this inflammatory process it can lead to overexpression of inflammatory mediators such as prostaglandins, and in conclusion can get septick shock "death".
therefore, scientists focus on the inhibition of such key point enzymes as COX-2, and of course other mediators of inflammation as iNOS or cytokines TNF-a, IL-1b and so on.
Inflammation is necessary process in host defense but overexpression can damage host body itself....