Tissue factor is overexpressed in a variety of solid cancers, such as cervical cancer (Cocco et al., 2011), NSCLC (Koomägi and Volm, 1998), endometrial cancer (Fadare et al., 2011), prostate cancer (Akashi et al., 2003) and ovarian cancer (Abu Saadeh et al., 2013). The gene discussed is F3; the disease is cervical cancer.