Indeed, evidence suggests that AiP is involved in tumorigenesis by contributing to tumor repopulation (Huang et al., 2011), therapeutic resistance (Kurtova et al., 2015; Lin et al., 2018; Tong et al., 2018), and angiogenesis (Cheng et al., 2019; Feng et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene AIP and neoplasm.