AKT1 and cancer: By virtue of their interactions with miRNA, circRNAs play the key roles in regulating cancer progression and may involve in a variety of signaling pathways in cancers such as mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK1/2), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT) intracellular signaling pathway, and Wnt/β-catenin pathway (20).