EIF4A1 and cervical carcinoma: Liang et al. found that overexpression of eIF4A1 was detected in 83.9% of cervical cancer tissues and that overexpression of eIF4A1 was associated with advanced tumor proliferation, lymph node metastasis, squamous cell in patients with cervical cancer, before and after brachytherapy by using immunohistochemistry in 35 cases of normal cervical tissues, 87 cases of cervical cancer tissues without surgical treatment, and 50 pairs of cervical cancer tissues histology, deep mesenchymal invasion, and poor prognosis were significantly correlated (LIANG et al., 2014).