EEF2K and neoplasm: Recent research has shown that eEF2K is associated with tumor survival, proliferation, migration, and invasion (Xie et al., 2014; Faller et al., 2015; Zhu et al., 2017; Ng et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2020; Tong et al., 2020; Wu et al., 2020; Xiao et al., 2020; Erdogan et al., 2021; Ju et al., 2021).