“…Consistently, PVT1 is overexpressed in cancer cells compared to normal non-tumorigenic epithelial cells. It is found to be upregulated in bladder (24), breast (25–27), cervical (28), colon (29), colorectal (30, 31), gastric (32–35), lung (36–41), pancreatic (42), and prostate cancer (43–46), as well as clear cell renal cell carcinoma (18), esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) (20, 47), glioma (48–50), head and neck SCC, hepatocellular carcinoma (51–55), laryngeal SCC (56), malignant pleural mesothelioma (57), osteosarcoma (58–60), and papillary thyroid carcinoma (61), melanoma (62). Further, data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and independent analysis of human clinical tissue samples showed elevated PVT1 expression in cancer tissues in comparison to adjacent normal tissue or matched normal tissue (27, 31, 32, 45, 50).…”