The respective secretions of chemokine C-X-C motif ligand 8 (CXCL8), leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), and family with sequence similarity 3 member C (FAM3C) were each enhanced when low-autophagy melanoma cells were treated with the autophagy-inducing tat-BECN1 peptide and reduced when ATG7 was silenced in high-autophagy cells (Kraya et al., 2015). The gene discussed is CXCL8; the disease is melanoma.