Hydroxysafflor Yellow A 7) from Carthamus tinctorius L. [Asteraceae; Carthami flos] has the potential to significantly suppress tumor growth by inhibiting the secretion of angiogenesis factors, such as VEGF-A and basic FGF, as well as VEGFR1 (Yang et al., 2015). The gene discussed is VEGFA; the disease is neoplasm.