EPOR and cancer: Erythropoietin (EPO) is the hematopoietic cytokine that regulates the formation of red blood cells by binding to the erythropoietin receptor (EPOR), a member of the cytokine receptor family that is expressed not only in erythroid cells, but also in many non-hematopoietic cell types including vascular endothelial cells and cancer cells [7].