Further multivariate analysis adjusting for adjuvant radiation and hormone treatment, in addition to the other clinicopathological variables assessed, also demonstrates that NEAT1 was significantly prognostic for BCR, MET and GS>7, supporting NEAT1 as a prognostic biomarker for aggressive prostate cancer independent of common clinical and pathologic variables (Supplementary Fig. 8). This evidence concerns the gene NEAT1 and prostate carcinoma.