CENP-H can promote cancer growth and metastasis through PI3K/AKT, survivin, and mitochondrial apoptosis signaling mechanisms, and it can be regulated by long non-coding ribonucleic acid (lncRNA) plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1)/miR-612, Sp1, or Sp3. This evidence concerns the gene SP1 and cancer.