TY - BOOK AU - Doaa Mohamed Abdu AU - Iman Atef Mandour , AU - Mona Salem , AU - Riham Elessawy , TI - Vascular endothelial growth factor 634G / C gene polymorphism in prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in Egyptian patients / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Doaa Mohamed Abdu , KW - Alpha fetoprotein KW - Hepatocellular carcinoma KW - Vascular endothelial growth factor N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology; Issued also as CD N2 - The burden of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been increasing in Egypt with a doubling in the incidence rate in the past 10 years . Elevated serum vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have been related to poor prognosis in patients with HCC . VEGF gene polymorphisms have been shown to be independently associated with an adverse outcome in various malignancies including HCC ER -