In many of these diseases, RET appears to stimulate tumor cell migration or invasion and is correlated with reduced overall survival (Narita et al., 2009; Pandey et al., 2010; Chuang et al., 2013; Kosari et al., 2014; Lin et al., 2016; Pietrantonio et al., 2018). The gene discussed is RET; the disease is neoplasm.