Conversely, forced expression of NEAT1 enhanced cell growth, migration and invasion in endometrial cancer, papillary thyroid cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, ovarian cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and breast cancer (Li Z. et al., 2016; Sun et al., 2016; Cheng and Guo, 2017; Ding et al., 2017; Wang J. et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2017; Zhang H. et al., 2018). This evidence concerns the gene NEAT1 and breast cancer.