HMGB1 and cancer: Moreover, HMGB1 has been demonstrated as a critical role in a number of cancers, including colorectal [10], breast [11,12], lung [13,14,15,16], prostate [17], cervical [18], skin [19], kidney [20,21], gastric [22,23,24,25,26], pancreatic [27,28,29], osteosarcoma [30] and leukemia [31].