To decipher the link between circulating MMP9 and the response of glioblastoma to bevacizumab, we first showed that circulating MMP9 was dependent on glioblastoma, because circulating MMP9 decreased after glioblastoma resection, was correlated with MMP9 expression in the tumor, and was specific to glioblastoma as compared with brain injury. The gene discussed is MMP9; the disease is neoplasm.