Critically, several reports emphasize that high expression levels of eIF4A significantly stimulate a cancer cell malignant phenotype (proliferation, invasion, migration and epithelial mesenchymal transition) and inhibit apoptosis (Modelska et al. 2015; Li et al. 2017; Liang et al. 2014; Gao et al. 2020). Here, EIF4A1 is linked to cancer.