VEGFA and cancer: Considering the overlap in molecular mechanisms between cancer and regenerative biology (e.g., mTOR pathway, Wnt signaling pathway) [78,79,80,81,82,83], it is possible that genes involved in these overlapping pathways and upregulated in our dataset, such as vegf, hif-α, hgf, fgf, bmp, wnt, and frizzled, also contribute to repair.