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So a good example is a subtype of lung cancer, which is driven by a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR.
—quantamagazine.org, 15 Oct. 2024
Seen in over 60% of NSCLC cases, KRAS, epidermal growth factor (EGF), and ERBB2 are the most common genes involved.
—Mark Gurarie, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
In 2023, one particular growth factor took center stage: epidermal growth factor (EGF).
—Photographed By Kristine Romano., refinery29.com, 6 Feb. 2024
Air pollution may also lead to genetic changes such that Asian patients have some of the highest rates of the cancer-causing epidermal growth factor receptor mutation, which leads healthy cells to divide uncontrollably and grow into tumors.
—Simar Bajaj, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2024
Similarly, ReVive founder Gregory Brown, MD, says that in his position as a plastic surgeon, wound repair was consistently slow, but human peptides—synthetic epidermal growth factor, specifically—would help to speed up the process.
—Ali Finney, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2024
This group includes triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive (HER2+) patients.
—Jon Hu, Forbes, 4 May 2023
In one experiment, the team was able to make the nanosyringes with altered tail fibers stick to an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) that sits on the surface of some human cancer cells.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2023
One successful collaboration between the U.S. and China cited by Li as an example is in treating EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) mutations that are present in about 20% of lung cancers yet disproportionately strike Asian women who don’t even smoke.
—Russell Flannery, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1966, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of epidermal growth factor was
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“Epidermal growth factor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epidermal%20growth%20factor. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
Medical Definition
epidermal growth factor
noun
: a polypeptide hormone that stimulates cell proliferation especially of epithelial cells by binding to receptor proteins on the cell surface
—abbreviation EGF
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