HOXC6 and cancer: HOXC6 is a member of the HOX family, and its aberrant expression has been verified in a variety of cancers, such as prostate (Ramachandran et al., 2005), breast (Hussain et al., 2015), nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Chang et al., 2017), gastric (Zhang et al., 2013), and ovarian (Tait et al., 2015) cancers.