Published in Cancer Weekly, March 7th, 2006
"Treatment failure in NPC is mainly due to local and regional recurrence and at present lacks a marker to identify such cases. VEGF, a potent endothelial cell mitogen and vascular permeability-inducing agent, plays a critical role in tumor growth and neo-vascularization," scientists in India reported.
"VEGF expression was assessed in 103 NPC and 26 benign adenoid lesions by immunohistochemistry and Epstein Bar Virus (EBV) presence by PCR using primers directed against EBNA-1 gene. The localization of the virus to the tumor cells...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-03-07)
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