Expression and effect of related factors of lymphangiogenesis in colorectal cancer / 国际肿瘤学杂志

ABSTRACT

The lymphatic metastasis affects prognosis and survival of colorectal cancer seriously,and lymphangiogenesis plays an important role in the lymphatic metastasis. Many factors such as COX-2 and MMP-7 which are found in many researches recently can promote the expression of VEGF-C which can promote the lym-phangiogenesis by connecting with its receptor and activating the relevant signal pathway. At present,as these related factors of lymphangiogenesis are found in colorectal cancer,the process of lymphangiogenesis in colorec-tal cancer becomes more clear,but the exact mechanism of these factors needs to be researched in future.