Doublecortin-like kinase 1 (DCLK1), formerly known as DCAMKL1 and KIAA0369, is one such MAP that is also upregulated in a range of cancers, such as pancreatic, breast, bladder, colorectal, gastric, and hepatocellular carcinoma (Burgess et al., 1999; Lin et al., 2000; Li and Bellows, 2013; Meng et al., 2013; Qu et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2016; Fan et al., 2017; Kadletz et al., 2017; Jiang et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene DCLK1 and hepatocellular carcinoma.