DBT and cancer: It has been shown that there is specificity between DBT and signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) in leukaemic T-cell lines and that STAT5 can be translocated to mitochondria by cytokine regulation and tyrosine phosphorylation to bind to DNA and promote cancer cell growth through a cellular metabolic pathway (Chueh et al., 2010).