SNAI1 and colonic neoplasm: SNAI1, snail family transcriptional repressor 1, it is involved in regulating EMT processes in pancreatic tumor cells (Zhang et al., 2022), SNAI1 is thought to induce tumor stemness and resistance to radiation in colon cancer (Zhu et al., 2018) and unstable expression of SNAI1 leads to distant metastasis in lung cancer (Wang et al., 2019).