[It has been shown that: (i) high serum concentrations of IGF-1 and IGF-2 are associated with an increased risk of breast, prostate, colorectal and lung cancers; and (ii) IGF-R1 is commonly disturbed in many tumours (like gastric, lung, endometrial cancer) leading to a phenotype of anchorage-independent tumour growth.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE