The cancer-associated Sm-like oncogene (CaSm) has been shown to be overexpressed in nearly 90% of human pancreatic tumor samples as well as several other cancer histopathologies.8 Also identified as human LSm1, CaSm is a key member in the LSm1–7 complex where it forms a heteromeric ring with six other members of the LSm family. This evidence concerns the gene LSM1 and pancreatic neoplasm.