PBK has been described in some human cancers and its overexpression is associated with tumor invasion, proliferation, and metastasis in OV, lung cancer, COAD, and PRAD (Shih et al., 2012; Chen et al., 2015; Ikeda et al., 2016; Zykova et al., 2017). The gene discussed is PBK; the disease is neoplasm.