“…Overall survival (OS) [ 22 – 32 , 34 – 37 , 39 – 49 , 52 – 59 ], progression free survival (PFS) [ 39 , 56 ], disease specific survival (DSS) [ 33 ], and disease free survival (DFS) [ 36 ] were investigated to evaluate survival outcomes. Expression of the lncRNAs was measured by use of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) using GAPDH [ 21 , 24 , 26 – 29 , 32 – 35 , 37 , 39 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 48 , 50 – 53 , 55 , 57 ], β-actin [ 23 , 29 – 31 , 45 – 47 ], RNU6B [ 25 , 38 , 41 , 44 ], U6 [ 20 , 22 , 56 ] and U7 as reference genes for endogenous normalization [ 51 ].…”