BMF and cervical squamous intraepithelial neoplasia: While the MCL1/NOXA/BIM axis appears to be most critical to remove mitotically arrested cells as a barrier against CIN in multiple epithelial cancer cell lines [25,26], the BH3-only protein BMF (BCL2 modifying factor), originally described to be a regulator of anoikis [31], was suggested to contribute to death in mitosis of human dermal fibroblasts.