EEF1A1 and benign prostatic hyperplasia: Interestingly, eukaryotic translation elongation factor 1 alpha 1 (eEF1A1), (a.k.a EF-Tu), was seen to show significant increased expression in non-progressing cancer relative to BPH, and its expression was further increased with disease progression, and was maintained during metastasis (Table S2 and Figure 2).