Thus, caveolin-1 exhibits a high degree of upregulation in early tumor cells that metastasize to lymph nodes and is closely related to poor prognosis [23], indicating that in different stages of tumor development, the effects of caveolin-1 as an important molecule in the regulation of growth are also very different; that is, caveolin-1 is not only a tumor suppressor protein but also a transfer-related molecule. The gene discussed is CAV1; the disease is neoplasm.