Considering the number of available scientific papers, CXCL1 is one of the four most studied CXC chemokines, with more than 5000 experimental papers available on PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; accessed date: 15 November 2021), with more than 1000 of these on the role of CXCL1 in cancer. Here, CXCL1 is linked to cancer.