[The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) was the first receptor to be proposed for targeted cancer therapy, having been found to be commonly overexpressed in a range of solid tumors and play a role in cancer cell proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis, invasion and metastasis.]. 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