ELK1 and neoplasm: For example, ETV1, ETV5, ETV4, EHF, ELK1, ETL4, ETS1, ETS2, and ERG act as tumor promoters accelerating angiogenesis in CRC (Cheng et al. 2019; Li et al. 2016; Ma et al. 2021a, b; Meng et al. 2019; Wang et al. 2020a, b, c; Wang et al. 2020a, b, c; Yao et al. 2021; Zhu et al. 2020).