MALAT1 and neoplasm: Oncogenic roles of lncRNA MALAT1 in OSCC were previously reported, including promotion of growth, metastasis, and chemoresistance of OSCC through inducing the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and sponging tumor-suppressive miRNAs such as miR-143, miR-125b, and miR-101 (10, 11, 28–30).