Recent studies have highlighted the important prognostic role of SNHG16 in various types of cancer, including bladder cancer [10, 11], cervical cancer [12], colorectal cancer [13], esophageal squamous cell carcinoma [14], gastric cancer [15], glioma [16], hepatocellular carcinoma [17–19], non-small cell lung cancer [20], osteosarcoma [21, 22], ovarian cancer [23], pancreatic cancer [24], and papillary thyroid cancer [25]. This evidence concerns the gene SNHG16 and cancer.