All previous studies indicated the importance of LAT1 in supporting the rapid growth and proliferation of cancers (Kim et al., 2004; Kaira et al., 2008a, 2009a, 2011a, 2012, 2013a; Ichinoe et al., 2011; Toyoda et al., 2014; Namikawa et al., 2015; Honjo et al., 2016; Hayase et al., 2017; El Ansari et al., 2018). The gene discussed is LAT; the disease is cancer.