LYPD5 and lung carcinoma: In this report, we wanted to evaluate the inhibition effects of fucoidan on cachectic symptoms, tumor development, lung carcinoma cell spreading/proliferation, as well as expression of metastasis-associated proteins in an LLC cells-inoculated mice model in order to know whether fucoidan is suitable to serve as a prophylactic agent in the prevention of cancer-cell invasion and metastasis.