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Article: Growth factor levels high among minority women with breast cancer.(vascular endothelial growth factor)(Brief Article)
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- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- April 4, 2002
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2002 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - One of the first studies to look at angiogenesis in relation to breast cancer progression in minority females has determined a significant correlation exists between tumor vascularity and survival in those women.
Doctors at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, located at the University of California - Los Angeles, have reported in the March 2002 edition of International Journal of Oncology that plasma levels of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a modulator of tumor neovascularization, can predict survival in African American and non-white Hispanic women.
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