It has been reported that NEAT1 is an oncogene in various cancers, such as bladder cancer (Shan et al., 2020), hepatocellular carcinoma (Krohler et al., 2019), prostate cancer (Jiang et al., 2020), non-small cell lung cancer (Qi et al., 2018). This evidence concerns the gene NEAT1 and non-small cell lung carcinoma.