NMUR2 and cancer: Therefore, it will be interesting to further explore whether changes in steroid levels, or other as yet uncharacterized factors, during normal ovarian development or during ovarian tumorigenesis may play a role in modulating the alternative splicing machinery of NMUR2. Taken as a whole, detecting the level of NMUR2S and understanding the post-transcriptional mechanisms that control NMUR2S production during cancer progression could be of pivotal importance for future in vivo targeting of NMU signaling-related cancers both diagnostically and therapeutically.