MIF and cancer: Interestingly, CGA reduced the serum and pancreatic levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)—a pro-inflammatory cytokine, which is implicated in cancer (i.e., it is found in many human cancer and cancer-prone inflammatory diseases, including chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer) and may be characterized as critical mediator of severe AP [35, 38, 39].