VEGFA and cancer: Additionally, suppression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) (Wang J. et al., 2018), eliminations of cancer stem cell (CSC)-characteristics (Xia and Xu, 2015), and down-regulation of telomerase (Sadava et al., 2007; Berletch et al., 2008) have been proposed to be involved in the curative mechanisms of EGCG.