While HuR plays a protective and antiapoptotic role undernormal stress conditions, this function becomes dysregulated in cancer,promoting malignant cell growth, survival, and metastasis. Indeed, HuR expression levels are significantlyelevated in a wide variety of cancer tissues compared to their regularcounterparts. Increased cytoplasmic accumulationof HuR is associated with more aggressive malignancies and servesas a prognostic marker for poor clinical outcomes in cancers of thecolon,−,  prostate,, breast, brain, ovaries, pancreas, liver, and lungs. Here, ELAVL1 is linked to cancer.