Phosphorylated ADAR1 (ADAR1p110) in the cytosol binds to 3ʹ-UTR of several anti-apoptotic genes, which prevents their binding to Staufen1 and subsequent mRNA degradation, thereby promoting cancer cell survival (Boulay et al., 2014; Crawford Parks et al., 2017; Gong and Maquat, 2011; Sakurai et al., 2017; Xu et al., 2015). This evidence concerns the gene ADAR and cancer.