IL6 and hepatocellular carcinoma: Eventually, we evaluated the capacity of tumor metastasis through observing and measuring the metastatic nodules transferring to lung tissues, illustrating that HCC lung metastasis was prominently inhibited by DLGAP1-AS1 knockdown, and the inhibitory effect could be reversed by knockdown of miR-26a/b-5p or the upregulation of IL6 (Fig. 8f).