TPT1 and cancer: Among them are genes that had not been linked to cancer before, which may provide leads for the development of new strategies to repress malignant growth, as well as others like Translationally Controlled Tumour Protein (Tctp), tudor (tud) and mei-W68 that have been linked to human cancer, thus opening up new experimental approaches to study how these genes contribute to malignancy in a genetically tractable experimental model like Drosophila.