Subsequently, a study by Li and coworkers revealed that miR-192-5p can promote the proliferation and metastasis of the HCC cell line, HCCLM3, by targeting semaphorin 3A (SEMA3A), a potent inhibitor of tumor angiogenesis in different cancers (Yan-Chun et al., 2017). Here, SEMA3A is linked to cancer.