VEGFC, vascular endothelial growth factor C, 7424

N. diseases: 291; N. variants: 12
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Combined hazard ratios suggested that VEGF-C overexpression was not associated with poor prognosis of disease-free survival (HR [hazard ratio] = 0.80, 95 % CI [confidence interval]: 0.51-1.09), overall survival (OS) (HR = 1.08, 95 % CI: 0.37-1.78) in patients with breast cancer. 24078449 2014
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In addition, short interfering RNA-mediated knockdown of COUP-TFII in the breast carcinoma cell line MCF-7 decreased the level of vascular endothelial growth factor-C mRNA expression, which is a known inducer of lymphangiogenesis and lymph node metastasis. 19154418 2009
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results reveal that CCR7 and VEGF-C display a significant crosstalk and suggest a novel role of the CCL21/CCR7 chemokine axis in the promotion of breast cancer-induced lymphangiogenesis. 25744065 2015
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE I demonstrate in this paper that chitin hydrolysate served as a strong inducer of VEGF-C synthesis by human breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells, increasing the secretion of VEGF-C to the cell culture medium as much as by 10-fold in comparison with the basal production. 21029043 2011
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Immunohistochemical studies of breast cancer tumour tissue have reported a relation between the increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) and the risk of lymph node metastasis. 26104766 2015
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our results suggested that co-expression of VEGF-C and Twist was associated with larger tumor size, higher numbers of lymph node involvement, D2-40-positive LVI, higher risk of distant metastasis, and worse DFS or OS in breast cancer patients. 30788837 2019
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here, we address these questions employing in vitro studies with a COX-2-expressing and VEGF-C/D-producing murine breast cancer cell line C3L5 and a rat mesenteric (RM) LEC line and in vivo studies in nude mice. 28056899 2017
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The present study highlights that VEGF-C siRNA in combination with ultrasound-mediated microbubble destruction (UMMD) could be a powerful, promising nonviral technology for breast cancer gene therapy. 23879170 2013
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE VEGFC and VEGFR1 mRNA overexpression is of prognostic value, dependent on HER2 status, in patients with high-risk early breast cancer undergoing adjuvant treatment. 26124351 2015
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Due to the small samples and insufficient date, further studies should be conducted to clarify the association between the overexpression of CXCR4 or C-Met or VEGF-C and the prognosis about breast cancer patients. 27214240 2016
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, we silenced the expression of VEGF-C with the highly specific post-transcriptional suppression of RNA interference (RNAi) in human breast cancer MCF-7 cell line. 17938864 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, a retrospective study found that higher circulating VEGF-C levels were associated with better survival in breast cancer patients. 29963266 2018
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our meta-analysis demonstrated that LVD, VEGF-C and VEGF-D could predict poor prognosis in patients with breast cancer. 23054001 2012
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human By the means of immunohistochemistry, COX-2, vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) and D2-40 were examined in the tissue samples of primary tumors from 94 patients underwent surgical resections for breast cancer from November 1998 to March 2002.Eighty-three patients were followed-up. 18509974 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, there was no association between VEGF-C expression and the clinicopathological factors or prognosis of breast cancer patients. 15943035 2005
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE EMP1 expression decreased in breast cancer and correlated significantly with lymph node metastasis, clinic stage, histological grade, and poor overall survival, T stages, suggesting that EMP1 may play important roles as a negative regulator to breast cancer MCF-7 cell by regulating the expression of caspase 9 and VEGFC protein. 24402572 2014
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The level of VEGF-C and VEGF-D expression was also significantly higher in breast carcinomas than in benign mammary lesions, P<0.01. 18512120 2008
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE STS and breast cancer VEGF-C expression was comparable and higher than normal tissue levels. 19351758 2009
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The results of the present study suggested that PKM2 expression was correlated with VEGF-C expression, and combination of PKM2 and VEGF-C levels had the better prognostic significance in predicting the poor outcome of patients with breast cancer. 26339369 2015
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate concentrations, diagnostic utility and power of VEGF-A, VEGF-C, VEGF-D and VEGFR-2 in comparison to CA15-3 in breast cancer (BC) patients. 30387014 2019
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor C in breast cancer cells by heregulin-beta 1. A critical role of p38/nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathway. 12471041 2003
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Immunohistochemical analysis showed that the level of VEGF-C expression was significantly related with that of survivin in breast cancer tissues (p<0.05). 22607367 2012
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Prolactin/androgen-inducible carboxypeptidase-D increases with nitrotyrosine and Ki67 for breast cancer progression in vivo, and upregulates progression markers VEGF-C and Runx2 in vitro. 28364216 2017
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Breast cancer-derived vascular endothelial growth factor-C (VEGF-C) has been shown to enhance lymphangiogenesis in lymph nodes to accelerate cancer metastasis. 31390756 2019
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Vascular Endotelial Growth Factors C and D (VEGF-C and VEGF-D) are crucial regulators of lymphangiogenesis, a main event in the metastatic spread of breast cancer tumors. 27806339 2016