MALAT1 and cancer: The following LncRNAs have been shown to be associated with the development and progression of lung cancer: HOTAIR, H19, ANRIL, MALAT1 (lung adenocarcinoma associated transcript 1) [19, 20], SCAL1 (smoke and cancer-related long-chain non-coding RNA1) [21], LncRNA AK126698 [22], and LncRNA GAS6-AS1 (GAS6 antisense RNA1) [23].