For example, in cancer cells LARP1 has positive effects on total protein synthesis (Burrows et al., 2010) and binds to a range of targets including those that encode proto‐oncogenes (Hopkins et al., 2016; Mura et al., 2015) in addition to TOP‐containing mRNAs (Fonseca et al., 2015; Tcherkezian et al., 2014). This evidence concerns the gene LARP1 and cancer.