Although GLO1 is reported to be higher expressed in a number of different cancer types including the lung37,52,53, in our cohort of 70 patients we did not observe such a clear trend: almost half of the patients had a higher and the other half a lower GLO1 protein expression in tumor compared to the surrounding healthy tissue (Fig. 4A; Supplementary Data 2). The gene discussed is GLO1; the disease is neoplasm.