A transcriptomic panel of 22 lipid metabolism genes [7] was preliminarily tested in 37 SCLC patients and after adjusting the analysis for putative confounder variables (age, sex, stage and smoking history) we found statistically significant associations after correction for multiple tests with OS for two genes: Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase (AMACR) and Perilipin 1 (PLIN1) (Figure 2A). Here, AMACR is linked to small cell lung carcinoma.