In addition to its influence on tumour progression through its angiostatic effects (Strieter et al., 2006), CXCL11 is part of the CXCR7/CXCL11 axis that was shown to induce the epithelial–mesenchymal transition and metastatic behaviour of OC cells under ERα control (Benhadjeba et al., 2018). Here, CXCL11 is linked to neoplasm.