L1CAM and cancer: The same notion applies to cell adhesion molecules TGFBI, L1CAM, LAMC1, ITGAV, THBS1 (24), the EMT marker molecules FN1, CDH2 and VIM (25), and the cancer stem cell marker molecules NGFR (CD271), ALDH1A3, and PLEKHA5 (26) as depicted in Fig. 3A.