MALAT1 upregulation is closely associated with the development of cancers such as lung (Wei S. et al., 2019), glioblastoma (Voce et al., 2019), esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (Chen M. et al., 2018), renal cell carcinoma (Zhang H. et al., 2019), colorectal cancer (Zhang H. et al., 2019; Xie et al., 2019), osteosarcoma (Chen Y. et al., 2018), multiple myeloma (Amodio et al., 2018), gastric cancer (Zhang YF. This evidence concerns the gene MALAT1 and cancer.