While the normal physiological role of CIRP as a stress-induced RBP has been well characterized, more recent studies have detailed the roles for CIRP in several diseases, including different forms of cancer and in inflammation [15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,32,34,37,38,40,41,42,70,71,72,73]. Here, CIRBP is linked to cancer.