MALAT1 and cancer: MALAT1 is overexpressed in many types of cancer (Goyal et al. 2021), including CRCs (Younis et al. 2022; Uthman et al. 2021; Hu et al. 2021; Zheng et al. 2020; Xiong et al. 2018; Yang et al. 2015), metastatic lung cancers (Shen et al. 2015), advanced stages of pancreatic cancers (Pang et al. 2015).