In gastric cancer, laryngeal squamous cell cancer, pancreatic cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma and breast cancer, knockdown of NEAT1 via small interfering RNA (siRNA) inhibited cell proliferation (Ma et al., 2016; Wang P. et al., 2016; Cheng and Guo, 2017; Huang et al., 2017, 2018; Qian et al., 2017). The gene discussed is NEAT1; the disease is nasopharyngeal carcinoma.