It is suggested that Etv1 is involved in different processes in multiple malignant tissues, such as carcinogenesis of prostate cancer, cell survival of gastrointestinal stromal tumor, and metastasis of pancreatic cancer (Tomlins et al., 2005; Chi et al., 2010; Heeg et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene ETV1 and gastrointestinal stromal tumor.