VASH1 and cancer: First, we integrated the expression of VASH1 in cancer and normal tissue samples from the GTEx and TCGA databases and found that compared with the GTEx normal control group, significantly higher VASH1 was expressed in various types of cancer, including ACC, BLCA, BRCA, CHOL, ESCA, GBM, HNSC, KIRC, KIRP, LAML, LGG, LIHC, LUAD, LUSC, OV, PAAD, PRAD, SKCM, STAD, TGCT, THCA, and UCEC (Figure 2(a), Table 1).