CAV1 and cancer: These findings have sometimes been in contradiction with datasets from the same types of cancer in which Cav-1 overexpression was reported (Patlolla et al., 2004) and in other cases have arisen in areas of cancer study where caveolins have otherwise gone unexamined (Ito et al., 2002; Suzuoki et al., 2002; Steffens et al., 2011).