KRAS and cancer: Consistent with a sensitizing effect of FTH downregulation in KRAS mutant cancer cells, our analysis of CRC patient-survival data acquired from The Cancer Genome Atlas Database (TCGA), showed that patients with KRAS mutated tumors and low intratumoral ferritin transcriptional level had a longer 3- and 5-year overall survival when compared with patients whose tumors expressed high ferritin level (Fig. 3d).