TSPOAP1 and cancer: Subsequently, studies indicated that BZRAP1-AS expression was dysregulated in several cancers and played critical roles in tumor initiation and progression  (Giulietti et al., 2018; Tan, Jin & Wang, 2019; Wang et al., 2019a; Wang et al., 2019b; Zheng et al., 2020b; Tang et al., 2021).