Given the evidence that FOXM1 coincides with metastasis of breast cancer, pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer,28, 34, 35 we next ectopically overexpressed FOXM1c in three oesophageal cancer cell lines, Eca109, KYSE180 (Figure 2A,B) and KYSE510 (Figure S2A). This evidence concerns the gene FOXM1 and familial pancreatic carcinoma.