CXCL12 and thyroid gland carcinoma: Wang et al. (2008) demonstrated that SDF-1/CXCR7 promoted Akt phosphorylation in prostate cancer. CXCR7 could also increase the p-Akt level in osteosarcoma (Zhang et al., 2014), bladder cancer (Hao et al., 2012), thyroid cancer (Zhu et al., 2016), and multiple myeloma (Azab et al., 2014).