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. 2026 Jan 13;16(2):250. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics16020250
FGF2 Fibroblast growth factor 2
bFGF Basic fibroblast growth factor
NSCLC Non-small cell lung cancer
LUAD Lung adenocarcinoma
LUSC Lung squamous cell carcinoma
SCLC Small cell lung cancer
DEGs Differentially expressed genes
GEO Gene expression omnibus
GO Gene ontology
KEGG Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes
PPI Protein–protein interaction
BP Biological process
MF Molecular function
CC Cellular component
FDR False discovery rate
OS Overall survival
FP First progression
TCGA The cancer genome atlas
CPTAC Clinical proteomic tumor analysis consortium
LCE Lung cancer explorer
MCODE Molecular complex detection
MNC Maximum neighborhood component
VEGFR Vascular endothelial growth factor receptor
FGFR Fibroblast growth factor receptor
TNF Tumor necrosis factor
IL Interleukin
ICAM1 Intercellular adhesion molecule 1
KDR Kinase insert domain receptor
PECAM1 Platelet and endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1
CCL2 C-C motif chemokine ligand 2
PTGS2 Prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2
TLR4 Toll-like receptor 4
MAPK Mitogen-activated protein kinase
PI3K/Akt Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase–protein kinase B pathway
GSEA Gene set enrichment analysis
UALCAN University of Alabama at Birmingham cancer data portal
TNMplot Tumor–node–metastasis plotting platform