BECN1 and cancer: Regarding the anticancer effects, some autophagic genes and inducers are mutated or deleted in certain cancers, as p53 and PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog), which are the most frequently altered tumor suppressor genes, and Beclin-1 (BECN1), which is deleted in breast and ovarian cancers (Bednarczyk et al., 2018).