MALAT1 and cancer: MALAT1 (Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1), primarily discovered in NSCLC, is evolutionarily conserved lncRNA located at chromosome 11q13 that plays a variety of biological functions, i.e., glycolysis, vascular growth, retinal neurodegeneration, cancer progression, and chemotherapeutic resistance (Michalik et al., 2014; Latorre et al., 2016; Luo et al., 2016; Yao et al., 2016).