My group identified and characterized the FOXR1 (FOXN5) gene within a cancer-associated deleted region in human chromosome 11q23.3 in 2004 (Katoh and Katoh, 2004c); Santo et al. later reported a FOXR1-MLL1 fusion caused by an intrachromosomal deletion in neuroblastoma in 2012 (Santo et al., 2012). This evidence concerns the gene FOXR1 and cancer.