MALAT1 and neoplasm: While previous studies have reported that HOTAIR serves as a predictor of poor prognosis by promoting metastasis and therapy resistance, and MALAT1 has been shown to regulate tumor progression and modulate chemotherapy response, the observed lack of statistical significance in survival differences for these genes in our cohort is likely influenced by the study’s limited sample size, which may have resulted in insufficient statistical power to detect subtle yet true prognostic impacts.