Additionally, miRNA has demonstrated to have vital significance in the development of human cancers by post‐transcriptional regulation of tumour suppressors or promoters,11 and miR‐23a‐3p could exercise a tumour‐promoting effect on pancreatic cancer by targeting the transforming growth factor‐β receptor type II (TGFBR2).12 This evidence concerns the gene TGFBR2 and neoplasm.