Several previous studies have shown that the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt/mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)/70-kDa ribosomal protein S6 kinase (p70 S6K) pathway plays a critical role in regulating the growth of both normal and cancer cells [24, 25]. Here, AKT1 is linked to cancer.