Irrespective of the type of cervical or nasopharyngeal cancer present, disruption of signaling pathways is associated with the pathogenesis of these cancers, and the phosphoinositide‐3‐kinase/ protein kinase B (PI3K/AKT) pathway is one of the major survival pathways of cells implicated in several cancers.7 The gene discussed is AKT1; the disease is cancer.