It may be relevant to other neoplasms as well considering that data mining of the TCGA database revealed a significant positive correlation between ErbB2 and SORL1 expression in testicular germ cell tumours, cervical squamous cell carcinoma, endocervical adenocarcinoma, renal clear cell carcinoma, sarcoma and thymoma (Supplementary Fig. 6d). The gene discussed is SORL1; the disease is endocervical adenocarcinoma.