HCP5 and gastric cancer: Furthermore, HCP5 functions as a ceRNA to sponge miR-29b-3p, miR-140-5p, miR-139-5p, and miR-186-5p, which consequently promotes cell growth, metastasis, invasion and epithelial–mesenchymal transition in hepatocellular carcinoma, clear cell renal cell carcinoma, colorectal cancer, or gastric cancer [9, 11–13].