FOXM1 and gastric cancer: Studies performed at the Laboratory of Medicine Engineering, Medical College, Hunan Normal University (Changsha, China) have demonstrated that a novel synthetic GEN analogue, 7-difluoromethoxyl-5,4′-di-n-octylgenistein (DFOG), induces cell apoptotic death in ovarian and gastric cancer cells by inactivating FOXM1 (17,18).