Guo Sumin, Martin Michael G, Tian Cheng, Cui Jinglin, Wang Lishi, Wu Shucai, Gu Weikuan
Department of Oncology, Hebei Chest Hospital, Lung Cancer Control and Prevention Center of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, 050041, China.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery- Campbell Clinic and Pathology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, 38163, USA.
J Cancer. 2018 Mar 22;9(7):1287-1300. doi: 10.7150/jca.22020. eCollection 2018.
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in the world. Angiogenesis plays a crucial role of the incidence, progression, and metastasis in lung cancer. Angiogenesis inhibitors are used to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, and the molecular biomarkers are also being assessed to predict treatment response/therapeutic response and patients' prognosis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a signal protein produced by cells that stimulates angiogenesis. Due to its predictive values of prognosis on NSCLC, a large number of methods have been developed and evaluated to detect VEGF levels in a variety of studies. In this article, we review the detection methods designed to measure the VEGF levels in different body fluids and prognosticate the value of VEGF in treatment, diagnosis and survival in lung cancer.
肺癌是全球最致命的癌症。血管生成在肺癌的发生、发展和转移过程中起着关键作用。血管生成抑制剂被用于治疗非小细胞肺癌(NSCLC)患者,同时也在评估分子生物标志物以预测治疗反应/疗效及患者的预后。血管内皮生长因子(VEGF)是一种由细胞产生的信号蛋白,可刺激血管生成。由于其对NSCLC预后具有预测价值,在众多研究中已开发并评估了大量检测VEGF水平的方法。在本文中,我们综述了旨在测量不同体液中VEGF水平并预测VEGF在肺癌治疗、诊断和生存方面价值的检测方法。