WIF1 and colorectal cancer: Indeed, hypermethylation of the Wif1 promoter, leading to Wif1 silencing (and thus activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling), was shown to be associated with various types of cancers such as lung cancer, in particular non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (Wissmann et al., 2003; Tan et al., 2013; Zheng et al., 2016; Guo et al., 2017), osteosarcoma formation (Kansara et al., 2009), colorectal cancer (Hu et al., 2018), cervical cancer (Ramachandran et al., 2012) and others (Figure 1).