[In patients with cancers of the infiltrating type, at stage T3-T4, with vessel invasion, lymphatic metastasis, hepatic, or peritoneal metastasis, the positive expression rates of MMP-9 mRNA, VEGF protein, and CD34 were significantly higher than those for patients with tumors of the expanding type (P < 0.01), at stage T1-T2 (P < 0.01), with nonvessel invasion (P < 0.05), without lymphatic metastasis (P < 0.05), and without hepatic (P < 0.001) or peritoneal metastasis (P < 0.001), respectively.]. 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