CXCL12 and cancer: It is well documented that CXCL12 plays a wide variety of roles in two unrelated set of diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and cancer, because its known receptor (CXCR4) is a coreceptor used by HIV T-tropic strains, and it is also the most widely expressed chemokine receptor in many different types of cancers and asthma [7, 8].