The research conducted by Ruru from Zhengzhou University (Chen et al., 2019) focused on investigating the role and mechanism of lncRNA-NEAT1-SFPQ in HCC, the expression levels of SFPQ and IL-8 were analyzed at the transcriptional and translational levels after knocking out or knocking in lncRNA-NEAT1 using Western blot and real-time quantitative PCR experiments. Here, CXCL8 is linked to hepatocellular carcinoma.