COL11A1 and invasive carcinoma: Interestingly, in invasive carcinomas, high expression of COL11A1 is detected in the stroma of breast, colorectal, esophagus, glioma, gastric, lung, ovarian, pancreatic and salivary gland cancers [14,24,25,26,27,29,33,47,48,49,50,51,52] (Table 1, Figure 1).