Our ceRNA network indicated that SFTA1P up-regulated the expressions of IL-11 or HOXC8 by binding mir-211, and elevated IL-11 or HOXC8 contributes to development of cancer , such as breast cancer (Cai et al., 2018; Li et al., 2014) and non-small cell lung cancer (Liu et al., 2018; Zhao et al., 2018b). This evidence concerns the gene HOXC8 and breast carcinoma.