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 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 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 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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to investigate the expression of MMP-9 and VEGF-C at both mRNA and protein levels in breast cancer and to correlate with lymph node metastasis and other clinicopathological characteristics. 30993496 2019
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 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 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 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 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
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Using real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent experiment, we respectively examined the different expression of VEGF-C between siRNA-MIF-MCF-7 and siRNA-NC-MCF-7 and breast cancer cells MCF-7. 26911617 2016
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 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 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 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 CTD_human 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 Previously, we identified that key molecules (IL6, CSF2, CCL5, VEGFA, and VEGFC) secreted by tumor cells and stromal cells in basal breast cancer can promote metastasis. 26173622 2015
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 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 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 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 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 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data define a critical role for SIX1 in lymphatic dissemination of breast cancer cells, providing a direct mechanistic explanation for how VEGF-C expression is upregulated in breast cancer, resulting in lymphangiogenesis and metastasis. 22466647 2012
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 These findings of the primary role of COX-2 and the COX-2-dependent role of HER-2, if any, in VEGF-C up-regulation and lymphangiogenesis suggest that COX-2 inhibitors may abrogate lymphatic metastasis in breast cancer irrespective of HER-2 status. 20608938 2010
CUI: C0678222
Disease: Breast Carcinoma
Breast Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our data provide evidence for a clinically relevant association between HER2/neu and VEGF-C expression in human breast cancer. 19940005 2010