These results are supported by our data on survival and by prognostic analysis, indicating that high expression of STYK1 was related to advanced N stage and AJCC 8th stage, and lower postoperative 5-year survival rate in patients with NSCLC, in agreement with the results of other studies (Orang et al., 2014; Hu et al., 2015; Wang et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2017; Zhao et al., 2017; Hu et al., 2018). Here, STYK1 is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.