As far as neoplastic diseases are concerned high expression of MMP-9 in cancer cells is, for example, a negative prognostic factor of survival in esophageal cancer [150] whereas an increase of the level of MMP-9 in blood serum is associated with breast, pancreas, colon, and prostate cancer as well as an advanced lung cancer [151]. The gene discussed is MMP9; the disease is prostate carcinoma.