Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Increased serum hepcidin is associated with multiple types of cancer and atherosclerosis (AS), and therapeutics that decrease hepcidin levels have been proposed to treat these diseases. 30387806 2019
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Interestingly, cancer patients were found to have significantly higher hepcidin concentrations compared to non-cancerous patients (mean: 20.6 ng/ml for cancer; 5.94 ng/ml for non-cancerous) (p value < 0.001). 31086210 2019
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Manipulating hepcidin expression to starve cancer cells for iron may prove to be a new therapy in the anticancer arsenal. 29391539 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Cumulating evidence has reported that the disturbed local expression of hepcidin may serve as a predictive biomarker in assessing the clinical outcomes in a range of cancer types. 29434930 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In the present study, it was assumed that high hepcidin expression and low ferroportin expression result in malignancy. 29731920 2018
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Our results demonstrate that a commonly used anti-hypertensive drug, spironolactone, which is prescribed for the treatment of heart failure, acne and female hirsutism, as well as imatinib, a first-line, lifelong therapeutic option for some frequent cancer types suppress hepcidin expression in cultured cells and in mice. 28385785 2017
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE To further investigate the relationship between hepcidin levels and gastric cancer risk, we conducted a nested case-control study (EURGAST) within the multicentric European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. 28543377 2017
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In this review, we discuss aspects of the hepcidin-ferroportin axis and iron regulation, as well as the inherent connections between them in cancer. 23676854 2014
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In tumor cells, iron metabolism changes by several mechanisms, such as regulating the growth of tumor cells by transferrin, accelerating the uptake of iron by the overexpressions of transferrin receptors 1 and 2 (TfR1 and TfR2), synthesizing or secreting ferritin by some malignant tumor cells, and upregulating the level of hepcidin in patients with cancer. 20346225 2010
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These results demonstrate the key role of the convertases Furin, PACE4, PC5 and/or PC7 in the generation and secretion of active hepcidin and suggest that the control of hepcidin processing as a potential therapeutic/diagnostic strategy in hepcidin-related disorders such as haemochromatosis, inflammatory diseases, anaemia and cancer. 18664504 2008
CUI: C1306459
Disease: Primary malignant neoplasm
Primary malignant neoplasm
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE We analyzed liver samples from patients undergoing hepatic surgery for cancer or receiving liver transplants and analyzed correlations between clinical parameters and liver hepcidin mRNA and urinary hepcidin concentrations. 15797999 2005