Further analysis of cervical cancer specimens demonstrated that HAND2‐AS1 was negatively correlated with Federation International of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) staging, differentiation and lymph node metastasis of patients, while there was an insignificant correlation with the patients' age, tumour diameter or pathology subtypes (Table 2). Here, HAND2 is linked to metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.