Studies have shown that the ability of glucocorticoids to induce apoptosis of leukemic cells may depend in part on the relative balance of the proapoptotic protein Bim and the antiapoptotic protein Bcl-2 present in the target cell (Ploner et al., 2005; Jing et al., 2015), and the same may be true for Bim and the antiapoptotic protein Mcl-1 in multiple myeloma cells (Gomez-Bougie et al., 2004; Follin-Arbelet et al., 2013). The gene discussed is MCL1; the disease is plasma cell myeloma.