The concordant findings of high expression of CIAPIN1 in tumor tissues and association to shorter survival have also been reported in other cancers; for example, CIAPIN1 was an independent prognostic factor for epithelial ovarian cancer and ovarian serous carcinoma, in that the increase of CIAPIN1 expression has been significantly associated with the poor clinical outcome of cancer patients [24,31]. Here, CIAPIN1 is linked to cancer.