IFNG and kidney cancer: Here, we verified that IFN-γ treatment led to activation of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) programme and metastasis in cell lines of various cancers, including the kidney cancer cell line Caki-1, the lung cancer cell line A549, the cervical carcinoma cell line CaSki, the breast cancer cell line BT549 and the colon cancer cell line HCT116.