KIF23 and cervical carcinoma: In the developing world, cervical cancer remains the second most common cancer among women, thereby placing a heavy economic burden on society.(Hillmann et al., 2013; Siva et al., 2015) It has been reported that cytoplasmic LINC00467 plays an important role in the progression of cervical cancer by competitively sponging miR-107 to downregulate the expression of the downstream gene KIF23.