IL6 and hepatocellular carcinoma: IL-6 blockade would change immunological environment and reinforce the effectiveness of anti-programmed death-1-ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1) therapy, therefore evoking significant tumor suppression activity in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (Mace et al., 2016); additionally, neutralization of IL-6 abrogated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) progression and myeloid-derived suppressive cells (MDSC) accumulation in Rarres2−/− mice (Lin et al., 2017).