Based on the Antimicrobial Peptide Database (APD) (http://aps.unmc.edu/AP/main.php), more than 250 AMPs have been reported to exhibit anti-cancer activities, and many researchers have suggested that numerous AMPs possess the ability to destroy cancer cell membranes or promote the apoptosis of cancer cells (Qiang et al., 2014; Shi et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene ADSL and cancer.