MAPT and cancer: In addition to its well-characterized role in neurodegeneration, studies reporting a correlation between MAPT gene products and survival in various types of tumors endorse an implication of Tau in cancer (Rossi et al., 2018; Gargini et al., 2019; Gargini et al., 2020; Papin and Paganetti, 2020; Cimini et al., 2022).