ELF4 and cancer: Furthermore, despite the keen interest in determining how perturbations of ELF4 relate to specific aspects of malignant cells, compared to other transcription factors such as TP53 (PubMed score of 46333.87) and MYC (13294.24), ELF4 (35.41) remains among the least studied transcription factor in human cancers [6, 7].