Thirty‐two genes (GRAMD3, SYNGR1, CMTM7, HLA‐DMB, HLA‐DRB4, CLEC2D, CCNB1IP1, HLA‐DRA, DEFB1, ERBB2, MUC4, LOC145837, RPS24, RHOD, HBEGF, ARHGDIB, PITPNC1, PEA15, KRT16, GJB3, JUN, FHL2, CYB5R2, HLA‐B, EGR2, HERC6, DUSP5, HBA2, CHST15, NKX3‐1, LBH, TSPAN8) are common in hypopharyngeal cancer and EGFR‐mutated lung adenocarcinoma. This evidence concerns the gene NKX3-1 and hypopharynx cancer.