HNRNPA1 and cancer: It accelerates cell cycle progression and aerobic glycolysis by activating telomerase to promote tumor growth, controls the anti-apoptotic signaling to enhance tumor maintenance and drug resistance, and advances the metastatic dissemination of cancer cells, all of which make HNRNPA1 promote various stages of cancer progression (Ting et al., 2009; Ko et al., 2014; Yu et al., 2015).