The RNA-binding protein LIN28A has been reported to be associated with poor prognosis and often up-regulated in a variety of malignant tumors (Viswanathan et al., 2009; Salmena et al., 2011; Li et al., 2012b; Wang et al., 2016a) and facilitate cancer metastasis (Wang et al., 2016b). Here, LIN28A is linked to cancer.