G6PD and central nervous system cancer: G6PD activity is increased in several types of cancers, including bladder, breast, endometrial, esophageal, prostate, gastric, renal, hepatic, colorectal, cervical, lung, and ovarian cancers, glioblastomas and leukemia, as well as gliomas [17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58].