ETV1 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Previously, the role of ETV1 in invasiveness and metastasis has been reported in digestive cancers including GIST [25], colorectal [26], gastric [27], pancreatic [28, 29] and hepatocellular carcinoma [30] as well as prostate [31, 32, 33] and breast cancers [34, 35].