To address this, we further analyzed 23 paired tumor specimens and found that the expression of eEF2K mRNA in BRCA, CHOL, HNSC, KICH, KIRC, KIRP, LIHC, and LUAD groups was higher than that in adjacent normal tissues (p < 0.05), while the expression in the COAD, PRAD, STAD, and THMY groups was lower than that in adjacent normal tissues (p < 0.05) (Fig. 1B). This evidence concerns the gene EEF2K and neoplasm.