Expression of GALNT7 has previously been found to be up-regulated in several cancer types, including PCa (Chen et al., 2014, Li et al., 2014, Peng et al., 2012, Gaziel-Sovran et al., 2011), and is linked to metastasis and invasion in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Nie et al., 2015). Here, GALNT7 is linked to cancer.