ELAVL1 and neoplasm: 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).