VEGFC and neoplasm: Such tumours had a mean MVD of 2.8±0.17 and a mean LVD of 2.2±0.22 compared with 2.3±0.11 and 1.5±0.11 for patients with low VEGF-C expression respectively (P=0.002 for MVD and P=0.014 for LVD), such relationships are illustrated using box plots in Figure 3.