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2004 OCT 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vascular endothelial growth factor-C associates with cervical cancer metastasis.
"Vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF)-C levels were significantly (p
"The prognosis of the 24 patients with increased VEGF-C level in metastatic lymph node lesions was poor and the 24-month survival rate was 38%, while the rate of the 16 patients with no change in VEGF-C level in metastatic lymph node lesions was 81%. There was a significant (p
"This is novel, direct evidence that VEGF-C might contribute to the aggressive lymphangitic metastasis in uterine cervical cancers, and that the increase in VEGF-C level from primary tumor to metastatic lymph node might be a prognostic indicator," researchers suggested.
Fujimoto and colleagues published their study in British Journal of Cancer (Clinical implication of expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C in metastatic lymph nodes of uterine cervical ...