“…ENTPD2 belongs to ENTPD family (Chiu et al, 2017), have reported only ENTPD1 plays an important role in cancer, however, discloses that ENTPD2 is harnessed by cancer cells to escape immune-mediated destruction and the expression level of ENTPD2 was also high in HCC patients, and the high expression of ENTPD2 was associated with direct liver invasion, tumor microsatellite formation and venous invasion, as well as the absence of tumor encapsulation. The pentose phosphate pathway belongs to major carbohydrate pathways, it could produce ribose and NADPH to protect and promote cells proliferation in hypoxic conditions, such characteristic meets the demand of malignant proliferating cells, therefor, the change of the pentose phosphate pathway may be the landmark of cancer (Sacoman et al, 2012). G6PD is the rate-controlling enzyme of pentose phosphate pathway, previous researches have reported G6PD gene is an oncogene and the expression level upregulates in bladder cancer (Ohl et al, 2006), ESCC (Wang et al, 2016), breast cancer (Pu et al, 2015), Sun et al (2014) indicated G6PD-deficient women have reduced breast cancer risk, Zhang et al (2017) indicated overexpression of G6PD increases the risk of colon cancer, Wang et al (2012a) reported G6PD could promote the progression of gastric cancer cells and is associated with poor clinical outcome for patients with gastric cancer.…”