CYP17A1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: The cytochrome P450, family 17, subfamily A, polypeptide 1 (CYP17A1), is a secretory protein that is overexpressed in the liver tissues of HCC model mice at both preneoplastic and neoplastic stages and in human HCC tissues compared with paired non-tumor tissues and other malignant tumors (lung cancer and prostate cancer) (149).