SOX9 and cancer: In Calu-6 tumors from hrIL-27-treated animals, the percentage of cancer cells displaying a distinct to strong SHH staining was decreased compared with control tumors (Figure 3B), whereas in SK-MES tumors from treated animals, the percentage of cells endowed with a distinct to strong nuclear staining for OCT4A, NOTCH1, and KLF4 was clearly decreased (Table 3) as was reduced the percentage of tumor cells displaying both nuclear and cytoplasmic SOX2 positivity and nuclear SOX9 positivity (Figure 3C) (Table 3).