Elevated expression of vascular endothelial growth factor correlates with increased angiogenesis and decreased progression-free survival among patients with low-grade neuroendocrine tumors

Cancer

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1478-1486

  Zhang, Jun ^a,b   Jia, Zhiliang ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Wang, Liwei ^c   Rashid, Asif ^a   Zhu, Zhenggang ^b   Evans, Douglas B ^a   Vauthey, Jean Nicolas ^a   Xie, Keping ^a   Yao, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Carcinoid; Therapy; Tumor; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STROMA CELL; TUMOR CELL; UPREGULATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARCINOMA, NEUROENDOCRINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 34247162696     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22554     Document Type: Article

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