In 2022, a study lead by Yan X., for example, found that IL-6 and IL-8 could be used as possible molecular biomarkers to diagnose and predict lung cancer metastasis regardless of pathological type or to improve the specificity and sensitivity for the diagnosis of lung cancer when paired with Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) [114]. Here, CXCL8 is linked to lung cancer.