To determine the significance for human cancer of the correlation between APE1 and miR-221/222 processing PTEN expression, we analyzed a cohort of 94 tissue samples from chemotherapy-naive and radiotherapy-naive patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer, glioblastoma, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Here, PTEN is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.