A recent report on cell proliferation rates in samples of mesothelioma, using the Ki-67 proliferation index (PI), showed that biphasic tumours had a higher PI than epithelioid and sarcomatoid types, and that the median value for epithelioid samples was higher than that of sarcomatoid tumours (Cakir et al, 2006), although only 4.5% of tumours were of the sarcomatoid type. Here, MKI67 is linked to mesothelioma.