Studies on response to inflammation reported that inflammation is progressed upon DCLK1 expression (Yi et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2020b) in GI cancer cells that serve as EMT precursors and tumor formation (Chandrakesan et al., 2016b; Li et al., 2018; Liu et al., 2018). The gene discussed is DCLK1; the disease is neoplasm.