The down-regulated expression levels of MTF1 could be identified in most of cancers, including breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA), COAD, kidney chromophobe (KICH), KIRC, kidney renal papillary cell carcinoma (KIRP), lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC), thyroid carcinoma (THCA), uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma (UCEC), bladder urothelial carcinoma (BLCA) and rectum adenocarcinoma (READ). Here, MTF1 is linked to squamous cell lung carcinoma.