ILK and skin basal cell carcinoma: Papanikolaou et al. found in all 100 cases of human BCC in their study that ILK (Integrin-Linked Kinase) was overexpressed and it was strongly correlated with tumor invasion and also with EMT features (loss of E-cadherin, Snail, nuclear β-catenin, and α-SMA expression) [61].