ADIPOQ and cancer: ADIPOQ is one of the most important adipocytokines secreted by adipocytes (Parida, Siddharth & Sharma, 2019), and the polymorphisms of ADIPOQ have been reported to correlate with several types of cancer, including colorectal (Nimptsch et al., 2017; Tan et al., 2017) and breast (Mendez-Hernandez et al., 2017) cancers.