HOXA11 and cancer: Compared to other biomarkers for cancer, lncRNA HOXA11-AS has been growing to be a promising prognostic biomarkers for reasons as followed: (1) our study demonstrated that overexpressed HOXA11-AS was an independent unfavorable prognostic factor of OS and PFS in cancer patients; (2) many studies revealed that lncRNAs reflected more tumor biological characteristics through interacting with protein coding genes and miRNAs, thus affecting cell growth, apoptosis, and metastasis, etc.