“…A growing body of evidence shows that IGF2BP3 has shown its promising value on cancer therapy ( Lochhead et al, 2012 ; Hsu et al, 2015 ). Numerous cancers have been identified the overexpression of IGF2BP3 including lung cancer ( Findeis-Hosey and Xu, 2012 ), breast cancer ( Scott et al, 2018 ), colorectal cancer ( Wei et al, 2017 ; Xu et al, 2019 ), hepatocellular carcinoma ( Shaalan et al, 2018 ), pancreatic cancer ( Chen et al, 2019 ), glioblastoma and ovarian clear cell carcinoma ( Bi et al, 2016 ; Dutoit et al, 2018 ). IGF2BP3 is a carcinoembryonic protein that is highly expressed during embryogenesis, lowly expressed in adult tissues, and re-expressed in malignant tissues ( Palanichamy et al, 2016 ).…”