Recent studies show that GSK-3β has an important function in pathogenesis of human cancer, including leukaemia (Ougolkov et al, 2007; Wang et al, 2008), pancreatic (Ougolkov et al, 2005, 2006), prostate (Mazor et al, 2004; Sun et al, 2007), colorectal (Shakoori et al, 2005), ovarian (Cao et al, 2006), thyroid (Kunnimalaiyaan et al, 2007) and brain (Kotliarova et al, 2008) carcinomas. This evidence concerns the gene GSK3B and carcinoma.