However, two recent meta-analyses were performed to evaluate IL-12B rs3212227 and IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphisms with cervical cancer risk and their results indicated that no significant association was found among all ethnicities (Chang et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2017; Pu et al., 2016; Zheng et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and cervical cancer.