[In this study, we tested whether eight functionally significant polymorphisms within six genes of the angiogenesis pathway [IL1B, IL1RN, vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), VEGF receptor 2, interleukin-8, cyclooxygenase-2] will predict the risk of tumor recurrence in stage II colon cancer patients treated with 5-fluorouracil based adjuvant chemotherapy.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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