RELA and neoplasm: Overexpression of cytoplasmic and/or nuclear RelA in tumour tissue has been previously observed in larger study cohorts of gastric (Sasaki et al, 2001; Yamanaka et al, 2004; Cao et al, 2005; Lee et al, 2005), prostate (Fradet et al, 2004; Ismail et al, 2004; Ross et al, 2004; Shukla et al, 2004; Sweeney et al, 2004), endometrial (Pallares et al, 2004), hepatocellular (Tai et al, 2000) and oral (Nakayama et al, 2001) as well as cervical (Nair et al, 2003) carcinoma.