FABP5 has been less widely studied in cancer, but is known to transport ligands to PPARD (Tan et al., 2002), which can intersect with many pro-tumor pathways that increase proliferation, survival (Adhikary et al., 2013; Di-Poï et al., 2002; Tan et al., 2001), and angiogenesis (Wang et al., 2006), and decrease tumor suppressor expression (Tan et al., 2001). This evidence concerns the gene FABP5 and cancer.