Additionally, Lev Becker’s group recently studied the role of neutrophils in several types of cancer cells, including ovarian, breast, lung, prostate cancer and melanoma cells and found that neutrophil-released specific protease ELANE induces cancer cell apoptosis via elevated levels of ROS and activation of CD8+ T-cells, suggesting neutrophils may possess a broad anti-cancer function [172]. This evidence concerns the gene ELANE and cancer.