FOXM1 and cervical cancer: The human Forkhead Box M1 (FOXM1) protein, belongs to a winged-helix transcription factor family (Jackson et al., 2010), was first identified as a mitotic-phase phosphoprotein (MPP2) from a cervical cancer HeLa cell line (Westendorf et al., 1994) and its gene structure later mapped to chromosome 12p13.3 consisting of 10 exons, two of which are alternatively expressed thereby producing three alternatively spliced mRNA isoforms (Korver et al., 1997; Ye et al., 1997).