The study also explored the signaling pathways associated with IGF2AS and found that the upregulated expression of IGF2AS inhibited the IGF2/vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) signaling pathway, thereby inhibiting the development of NSCLC, which suggests that IGF2AS is an ideal drug therapeutic target.23 HOX transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR) is an lncRNA functioning as a trans-regulatory element, which negatively regulates the chromosome transcription and recombination and promotes the tumor progression. Here, IGF2 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.