SOAT1 and metastatic neoplasm: Our statistical analysis revealed that the expression level of SOAT1 was higher in LN-metastatic tumors and was positively correlated with the expression level of VEGFC, VEGFR3 and LYVE-1, which are lymphangiogenic growth factors (Ji et al., 2014; Stacker et al., 2014; Ma C. et al., 2018).