MAFG and metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes: For example, lnc-MAFG-AS1 correlates with invasive depth, tumor, node, metastasis (TNM) stage and unsatisfied disease-free survival (DFS), and OS in colorectal cancer patients (17); it is also related to diffuse type, extensive invasion depth, frequent lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis and predicts worse OS in gastric cancer patients (26).