A 2 Mb segment mapping to human chromosome 8q24 and surrounding the MYC proto‐oncogene is a major hotspot of SNPs and large scale genomic alterations strongly associated with cancers of the breast, colon, head and neck, pancreas, ovaries, prostate, and bladder and highly predictive of poor patient outcome (Grisanzio & Freedman, 2010). Here, MYC is linked to cancer.