These roles for stathmin in regulation of the MT cytoskeleton and cell motility, and stathmin's as yet undefined role(s) in cancer, led us to use microarray technologies as an unbiased screen for transcriptome level changes due to genetic knockout of the STMN1 gene to provide clues to stathmin function beyond the MT cytoskeleton. The gene discussed is STMN1; the disease is cancer.