In this respect, IL-17 has been shown to directly induce VEGF in several malignant cell lines, including gastric (Meng et al., 2012), breast (Amara et al., 2016), and lung cancer (Pan et al., 2015b; Huang et al., 2016), as well as in tumor-associated neutrophils (Benevides et al., 2015). The gene discussed is VEGFA; the disease is neoplasm.