KIF11 was found overexpressed not only in MPM human tumor samples and MPM human cell lines, but also in blast crisis chronic myelogenous leukemia and pancreatic cancer (Nowicki et al., 2003; Liu et al., 2010; Kato et al., 2016a). Here, KIF11 is linked to chronic myelogenous leukemia, BCR-ABL1 positive.