Studies in cervical cancer cell lines (26) and in paraffin-embedded biopsies from uterine cervical tissue (27), including low grade and high grade squamous intraepithelial lesions and uterine cervical cancers, have reported that PRL-R expression was significantly increased in cervical cancers as compared to preneoplastic lesion or normal tissue samples. The gene discussed is PRLR; the disease is cervical carcinoma.