Several studies have reported that MALAT1 displays increased expression in a variety of tumours17–21, 41, In this study, we mined publically available gene profiling data and found that MALAT1 is upregulated in pancreatic tumours and PDAC cell lines and is expressed at higher levels in primary tumours from patients with distant metastasis than in localized tumours. This evidence concerns the gene MALAT1 and pancreatic neoplasm.