eIF6 has been linked to a variety of processes, including tumor biology (Miluzio et al., 2015; Sanvito et al., 2000) and regulation of metabolism (Brina et al., 2015b; Miluzio et al., 2016), and importantly, noncanonical roles of eIF6 in wound healing have been reported (Shu et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2015). This evidence concerns the gene EIF6 and neoplasm.