Previous research revealed that DAPK1 is a tumor suppressor gene, and the level of DAPK1 was down regulated in various cancers (Raval et al., 2007; Kilinc et al., 2012; Gao et al., 2015; Cai et al., 2017; Xie et al., 2017; Steinmann et al., 2019). Here, DAPK1 is linked to cancer.