It would be informative to also analyse the potential correlation of VEGF-A status with the expression of HuR, another VEGF-A mRNA-stabilising protein (Levy et al, 1998), which has also been described in different types of human cancers to be related to poor tumour prognosis (Denkert et al, 2004a, 2004b). This evidence concerns the gene ELAVL1 and cancer.