In addition, IL‐6 is suggested to play a substantial role in the development of pathological pain conditions, for example, cancer pain (Zhou et al., 2016) by sensitizing nociceptive fibres and mediating peripheral and central sensitization of DRG neurons via transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) receptors (Fang et al., 2015; Remeniuk et al., 2018). The gene discussed is IL6; the disease is cancer.