Recently, a great number of studies indicate that lncRNA TUG1 might participate in progression of a variety of cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer [24], colorectal cancer [25], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [26], gastric cancer [18] and hepatocellular carcinoma [27] as well as osteosarcoma [28]. This evidence concerns the gene TUG1 and cancer.