Previous studies showed that CTHRC1 promoted tumor cell progression and might play a key role in the invasion metastasis of cervical carcinoma, cervical squamous cell carcinoma, and colorectal cancer (Ni et al., 2018; Li N. et al., 2019; Zheng et al., 2019). The gene discussed is CTHRC1; the disease is cervical squamous cell carcinoma.