FGF9 and hepatocellular carcinoma: (2013) miR‐140‐5p suppresses the growth and metastasis of HCC by inhibiting TGFBR1 and FGF9 expression, and TGFBR1 has been identified as a promoter of cancer cell growth by inducing EMT (Han et al., 2005; Thien et al., 2015).