SLC2A1 and cancer: Similar changes were also found in cancer cells (Ancey et al., 2018) as GLUT1 was found to promote the proliferation and migration of cancer cells (Oh et al., 2017; Gonzalez-Menendez et al., 2018; Li et al., 2020) and the regulation of GLUT1 and the glucose metabolism could suppress the proliferation and migration of cancer cells (Liu et al., 2012; Zambrano et al., 2019; Heydarzadeh et al., 2020).