LGALS3 and neoplasm: There are multiple lines of evidence pointing to the relevance of galectin-3 in malignant cell transformation (12, 13), tumor growth (14, 15), anoikis resistance (16), apoptosis inhibition (17, 18), angiogenesis (19, 20), cell adhesion (21, 22), cell motility (23), and cell invasion (24, 25).