showed that NEAT1 overexpression increases OC cell proliferation and decreases apoptosis by negatively regulating miR‐34a‐5p which in turn loses its repressor function on the antiapoptotic oncogene B‐cell lymphoma‐2 (BCL‐2; Tsujimoto et al., 1985) consequently leading to cancer cell proliferation (Ding et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene NEAT1 and cancer.