Several papers have reported that ARF1 could promote tumor development and metastasis in other cancer types, including breast cancer (Haines et al., 2014), cervical cancer (Xu and Zhang, 2020), prostate cancer (Davis et al., 2016), head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (Vo-Hoang et al., 2020). The gene discussed is ARF1; the disease is head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.