IGF1R and cancer: IGF-1R is overexpressed in a variety of cancers including colon (Shiratsuchi et al., 2011), pancreatic (Hakam et al., 2003), prostate (Aleksic et al., 2017), lung (Gong et al., 2009; Badzio et al., 2010), and breast (Jones et al., 2007) cancers.