Overexpressed PTGR1 was found in many cancer cell lines, such as hepatocellular carcinoma (Sánchez-Rodríguez et al., 2017), lung cancer (Zhao et al., 2010), prostate cancer (Xue et al., 2016), and bladder cancer (Tapak et al., 2015), suggesting that PTGR1 has an oncogenic role. Here, PTGR1 is linked to lung cancer.