The publication years ranged from 2014 to 2019, and the expression levels of BANCR were all detected by qRT-PCR for the following cancer types: lung cancer [19], hepatocellular carcinoma [15–17], osteosarcoma [23], papillary thyroid cancer [24–27], gastrointestinal cancer [28, 29], bladder cancer [30], malignant melanoma [31], breast cancer [32, 33], clear cell renal cell carcinoma [18], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and endometrial cancer (details in Table 1) [22, 35, 36]. Here, BANCR is linked to melanoma.