SNHG16 and cancer: In other types of cancers, including retinoblastoma, oral squamous cell carcinoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, SNHG16 sequesters a number of miRNAs, namely miR-140-5p, miR-182-5p, miR-128-3p, miR-183-5p, miR-17-5p, and miR-520a-3p (Figure 8).