De la Iglesia, et al. demonstrated that in PTEN-loss glioblastoma, the unphosphorylated signal transducer and activator of Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), which transcriptionally represses IL-8, does not bind the IL-8 promoter, thus leading to an increased transcription and expression of IL-8 gene; in this way, IL-8 promotes the glioblastoma cell proliferation and invasiveness only in a genetic PTEN-loss context [35]. Here, CXCL8 is linked to glioblastoma.