VEGFA and cancer: However, analysis of the data according to histological type of carcinoma (intestinal vs. diffuse), VEGF-A overexpression, as measured by a summation score of staining intensity and proportion of positive staining cells for VEGF-A, was related with higher MVD in diffuse-type gastric cancers (p < 0.05), but not in intestinal-type cancers (p = 0.72) (Table 3).