Many factors contribute to the regulation of apoptosis, including the signal pathways (such as MAPK/ERK, PI3k/AKT, NF-kB, Nrf2, p53), the tumor microenvironment (TME) (including hypoxia-inducible factor, HIF), cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), and epigenetic regulation (Ramadoss et al., 2017; Zhou et al., 2020). This evidence concerns the gene AKT1 and cancer.