In keeping with this concept, transcripts encoding IL-6 and IL-11, key cytokines involved in inflammation-associated Stat3 activation in cancer [32-34], were marginally elevated after one week of GLI2A expression but highly induced by 2 and 3 weeks (Figure 5C), when Stat3 activation is widespread (Figure 4C, 4D). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and cancer.