EWSR1 and cancer: Ewing sarcoma is a cancer of bone and soft tissue in children that is characterized by a chromosomal translocation generating a fusion between EWS and an Ets family transcription factor, most commonly FLI1 (Jedlicka, 2010; Lawlor and Sorensen, 2015; Lessnick and Ladanyi, 2012; Mackintosh et al., 2010; Toomey et al., 2010).