VEGFA and breast carcinoma: In addition, curcumin was shown to decrease the ability of paclitaxel-resistant breast cancer cells to form lung metastases via suppression of various anti-apoptotic proteins (including XIAP, Bcl-2 and IAP1 and 2), proliferative (COX-2, c-myc and cyclin D1), and metastatic proteins (MMP-9, VEGF and ICAM-1) [176].