While the EMT is a dynamic biological process where epithelial cells lose their characteristics, such as cell-cell adhesion and polarity, and gain mesenchymal traits, such as enhanced migratory capacity and invasiveness, which are essential for embryogenesis, wound healing, and cancer progression, the increased expression of vimentin has a crucial role in the execution of the EMT, particularly through facilitating the morphologic and functional changes of cells that allow them to become more motile and invasive [10, 51]. This evidence concerns the gene VIM and cancer.