Recently, lncRNAs such as cancer-susceptibility 15 (CACS15), cytoskeleton regulator RNA (CYTOR), HOX transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR), metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), taurine upregulated 1 (TUG1), nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1), miR-17-92a-1 cluster host gene (MIR17HG) and so on, have been shown to be tightly correlated with the prognosis of CRC and function as competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) [60]. Here, MALAT1 is linked to colorectal carcinoma.