We found that the more slowly growing tumours from HIF-1α KO mice had markedly increased levels of hypoxia determined by Glut1 staining (Fig. 2e and Supplementary Fig. 2g), which also occurred in areas with high vessel density along with increased tumour cell death as assessed by caspase 3 staining (Fig. 2f and Supplementary Fig. 2h). Here, HIF1A is linked to neoplasm.