Over the past decade, substantial studies have confirmed that CELF2 played a tumour suppressor role in breast cancer, lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, glioma and acute myeloid leukaemia, suggesting that it can be used as a candidate biomarker to predict cancer prognosis.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Here, CELF2 is linked to lung carcinoma.