VEGFA and neoplasm: The only significant increase in gene expression levels was noted for VEGFA, whose expression was up-regulated by 10.7% in the host cells on Day 3 versus Day 8 (*P = 0.044, N = 5–7) and by 11.7% in the tumour cells between days 3 and 8 (*P = 0.052, N = 2–3).