TPT1 and cancer: TPT1 overexpression in circulation or tissues of patients has been documented in leukemia (Yağcı et al., 2013) and cancers in most main human organs such as the lung (Chen et al., 2013; Sun et al., 2019), liver (Chan et al., 2012; Lin et al., 2020), colon (Bommer et al., 2017), prostate (Kaarbø et al., 2013; Rocca et al., 2015), breast (Neuhäuser et al., 2019), etc. (Koziol and Gurdon, 2012; Ambrosio et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2015; Phanthaphol et al., 2017; Bommer and Telerman, 2020).