Using a mouse osteosarcoma xenograft model injected with human natural killer cells, they showed that treatment of mouse osteosarcoma xenografts with IL-2 and the diuretic spironolactone resulted in enhanced receptor-ligand interactions of NKG2D, leading to NK cell activation, expansion, and targeting of osteosarcoma tumor-initiating cells. This evidence concerns the gene IL2 and osteosarcoma.