Increased NEAT1 levels found in NPC tissue and cells negatively correlated with expression levels of the tumor‐suppressive (Sampson et al., 2007) miRNA let‐7a‐5p resulting in upregulation of the oncogenic (Hrustanovic and Bivona, 2016) Ras‐MAPK‐signaling pathway; thus, authors conclude a contribution of the NEAT1/let‐7a‐5p axis to chemoresistance in NPC by modulation of Ras‐MAPK signaling (Liu et al., 2018a). This evidence concerns the gene NEAT1 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.