Upregulation of Bcl-XL was observed in lymph node metastases and venous permeation in colorectal cancer (Jin-Song et al., 2011), hematogenous metastases of osteosarcoma patients (Wang et al., 2010) and lymph node metastases in oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (Zhang et al., 2014). The gene discussed is BCL2L1; the disease is colorectal cancer.