The existence and function of FUBP1 in cancer have been reported for neuroblastoma, myeloid leukemia, tongue squamous cell carcinoma, glioma, etc. (Cancer Genome Atlas Research et al., 2015; Hoang et al., 2019; Jiang et al., 2019; Chen et al., 2020). The gene discussed is FUBP1; the disease is tongue squamous cell carcinoma.