As shown in Figure 1A and 1B, we observed statistically significant positive correlations between FOXM1 and HSPA5 mRNA expression in colorectal cancer and adjacent normal tissue specimens (for tumor tissue: r = 0.445, P = 8.92×10−6; for normal tissue: r = 0.571, P = 5.28×10−9). Here, HSPA5 is linked to colorectal cancer.