According to various recent studies, there is a positive correlation between overexpression of MALAT1 and progression and metastasis in many other tumors such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, hematologic malignancies, sarcoma, bladder cancer, gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma and CRC [15, 17–20]. The gene discussed is MALAT1; the disease is colorectal carcinoma.