Current research suggests that SLC5A8 is a new candidate tumor-suppressor gene whose expression is reduced or deficient in human thyroid cancer,esophageal cancer,gastric cancer,colon cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.The gene is in human chromosomes 12q13-23,and encoding proteins that belongs to the members of the family of sodium/glucose transporters.It is sodium-coupled carrier that transfer short chain fatty acid,lactic acid,nicotinic acid and iodide.The exon 1 of GPG island methylation and histone acetylation can make SLC5A8 gene express silenced and promote the occurrence of tumor.of all transporter substrates of SLC5A8 expresses,butyrate,propionate and pyruvate function as histone deacetylase inhibitors and can be mediated apoptosis of many kinds of tumor cells,which may be the mechanism of inhibiting tumor.