“…The increased expression levels of Anxa2 in cancer tissues are associated with rapid recurrence [21,45], metastasis [32,52], poor response to chemotherapy [6,20], and poor prognosis [32,45]. Importantly, Anxa2 promotes cell adhesion [44], migration [40,44,59,61,62], invasion [51,57,59,61], EMT [63,64], and angiogenesis [26,38], which are crucial for cancer metastasis. In vitro studies demonstrated that Anxa2 downregulation significantly blocks cell cycle progression, cell division, and cell proliferation in cell lines derived from multiple myeloma [2], breast cancer [42,58], and lung cancer [47]; conversely, Anxa2 upregulation promotes cancer cell proliferation [51], these studies presented the implication of Anxa2 in cell cycle progression and cell proliferation.…”