KCNK3 and non-small cell lung carcinoma: TASK-1 channels have even been predicted to play a role in tumorigenesis and circumventing cell apoptosis in a population of non-small-cell lung cancer cells, and a reduction of TASK-1’s effect has been reported to reduce cancer cell proliferation (Leithner et al., 2016; Arévalo et al., 2022).