“…However, data published so far about its expression in different malignancies are inconsistent. To the best of our knowledge, ANXA3 has been reported to be overexpressed in a majority cancer types including breast ( Pendharkar et al, 2016 ; Zhou et al, 2017a ; Zhou et al, 2017b ; Guo et al, 2017 ; Aravind Kumar et al, 2018 ; Du et al, 2018 ; Kim et al, 2018 ; Li et al, 2018 ; Zhou et al, 2018 ), colorectal ( Madoz-Gurpide et al, 2006 ; Marshall et al, 2010 ; Yip et al, 2010 ; Yang L. et al, 2018 ; Yang Q. et al, 2018 ; Xu et al, 2019 ), bladder ( Tsai et al, 2018 ), ovarian ( Jiang et al, 2019 ), gastric ( Takahashi et al, 2015 ; Wang and Li, 2016 ) and pancreatic cancer ( Baine et al, 2011a ; Baine et al, 2011b ; Wan et al, 2020 ) as well as hepatocellular ( Pan et al, 2015a ; Pan et al, 2015b ; Tong et al, 2018 ) and nasopharyngeal carcinoma ( Ruan et al, 2010 ), while downregulated in renal ( Bianchi et al, 2010 ), prostate ( Wozny et al, 2007 ; Köllermann et al, 2008 ; Peraldo-Neia et al, 2011 ) and papillary thyroid cancer ( Jung et al, 2010 ). Furthermore, the expression of ANXA3 in lung cancer remains controversial, with the evidence of both upregulated ( Liu et al, 2009 ; Győrffy et al, 2013 ; Wang et al, 2019 ; Jin et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2021 ) and downregulated ( Rho et al, 2009 ; Wu et al, 2018 ; Lohinai et al, 2019 ) expression patterns documented in the literature.…”