EGF, epidermal growth factor, 1950

N. diseases: 774; N. variants: 33
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The epidermal growth factor (EFG) family of receptors and their respective ligands play a major role in breast cancer progression and are the targets of new therapeutic approaches. 10597254 1999
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The role of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in the regulation of estrogen receptor-alpha (ER-alpha) gene expression in the human breast cancer cell line MCF-7 was investigated. 10810301 2000
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE As they frequently express epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFRs), anti-EGFR therapies are currently assessed for this breast cancer subtype as an alternative to treatments that target HER-2 or hormone receptors. 22192147 2011
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In human breast carcinomas, the presence of EGFR correlates with lack of response towards anti-estrogen therapy suggesting the concomitant inhibition of both the receptors for estrogen and EGF to improve breast cancer therapy. 12127860 2002
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The contributions of EGF family ligands and their receptors to breast cancer are complex, and the specific mechanisms through which different ligands regulate breast tumor initiation and growth are not well-defined. 26215578 2015
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results indicate that breast cancer inhibition by P108 is independent of binding to hydrophobic ligands and is perhaps mediated by interference with EGF-dependent signaling pathways. 10828888 2000
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE HER2, human epidermal growth factor receptors type 2, a receptor tyrosine kinase that induces interminable cell proliferation, is overexpressed in 20-25 percent of breast cancers. 29549861 2018
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In view of the findings that EGF/EGFR-mediated MMP-9 expression is closely related to invasion and metastasis of breast cancer. 27087131 2016
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Epidermal growth factor gene expression in human breast cancer biopsy samples: relationship to estrogen and progesterone receptor gene expression. 2364377 1990
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE HB-EGF expression was dominantly elevated in ovarian, gastric, and breast cancer, melanoma and glioblastoma cells, whereas amphiregulin was primarily expressed in pancreatic, colon, and prostate cancer, renal cell carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma cells. 18023415 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE EGF induces cell motility and multi-drug resistance gene expression in breast cancer cells. 17172846 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Previous studies have shown a correlation between expression of the EGF receptor type III mutation (EGFRvIII) and a more malignant phenotype of various cancers including: non-small-cell lung cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, prostate cancer and breast cancer. 11710837 2001
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE EGF up-regulates tTG expression in human breast-cancer cells, and knock-downs of tTG or the treatment of breast cancer cells with a tTG inhibitor blocks their EGF-stimulated anchorage-independent growth. 20080707 2010
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, it is not known whether breast cancer patients can raise immune responses to EGF-RvIII expressed by their tumors. 15528389 2004
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, the results indicated that USP18 may promote the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-mediated EGF receptor (EGFR)/AKT/S‑phase kinase-associated protein 2 (Skp2) pathway by upregulating EGFR and Skp2 in a AKT/forkhead box O3-dependent manner in breast cancer. 29749454 2018
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Examples of new agents are: trastuzumab (Herceptin), a humanized monoclonal antibody that blocks the HER-2/neu proto-oncogene in combination with cytotoxic agents, is used in a percentage of breast cancer patients; signal transduction inhibitor of abl tyrosine kinase STI 571 (Glivec) has been shown to be an active treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia and GISTs; epidermal growth factor receptors in certain tumors have been targeted with agents such as C225 (Cetuximab) and ZD 1839 (IRESSA); an adenosine deaminase analogue of deoxyadenosine, Cladribine (2-chloro-2 deoxy-adenosine) has shown high effectiveness in hairy-cell leukemia and the multitargeted antifolate (Premetrexed) and several vaccines have been studied and are in clinical trials for resistant cancers. 12375030 2003
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results do not support a strong association between common variants in the ESR1 and EGF genes and breast cancer risk, tumour characteristics or survival. 18271972 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Coexpression of c-kit and stem cell factor in breast cancer results in enhanced sensitivity to members of the EGF family of growth factors. 10634512 1999
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results emphasized the usefulness of quantitative receptor determination suggesting the relative stability of EGF-R content during the clinical course of breast cancer, its independence from ER, its significant predictive and weak prognostic values, and a possible correlation with the aggressiveness of the disease, and response to non-endocrine treatments. 10606181 1999
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE EGF-dependent growth inhibition in MDA-468 human breast cancer cells is characterized by late G1 arrest and altered gene expression. 1675999 1991
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Upon EGF stimulation of breast cancer cells, CaM co-localizes with Akt at the plasma membrane to enhance activation. 26391397 2015
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, the tumors with ING4 deletion were more likely to belong to the HER2 molecular subtype (estrogen receptor negative/progesterone receptor negative/human epidermal growth factor positive) of breast cancer, compared with the other subtypes (28.4% HER2 versus 15.7% all, P = .002). 21315418 2011
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Isoform-specific neutralization of PI3K isoforms in breast cancer cell lines (by PI3K antibody microinjection or a p110delta-selective pharmacological inhibitor) demonstrated that p110delta is the most important class IA PI3K in the regulation of epidermal growth factor-driven motility in vitro, controlling the directionality and, to a lesser extent, the speed of migration. 12670921 2003
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In breast cancer cell lines, epidermal growth factor (EGF) treatment promotes concomitant up-regulation of hMena and hMena(+11a), resulting in an increase of the fraction of phosphorylated hMena(+11a) isoform only. hMena(+11a) overexpression and phosphorylation leads to increased p42/44 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation and cell proliferation as evidenced in hMena(+11a)-transfected breast cancer cell lines. 17363586 2007
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE However, AIB1 also affects the growth of hormone-independent breast cancer and AIB1 levels are limiting for IGF-1-, EGF- and heregulin-stimulated biological responses in breast cancer cells and consequently the PI3 K/Akt/mTOR and other EGFR/HER2 signaling pathways are controlled by changes in AIB1 protein levels. 19418218 2009