LncRNA CASC15, MiR-23b Cluster and SMAD3 form a Novel Positive Feedback Loop to promote Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Metastasis in Ovarian Cancer

Cancer Susceptibility Candidate 15 (CASC15), which is a newly identified long noncoding RNA crucial for epigenetic regulation in human tumors, was found to be associated with poor prognosis of the patients with ovarian cancer by utilizing The Cancer Genome Atlas and Gene Expression Omnibus database. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to explore the functional role and latent molecular mechanism of CASC15 in the progression of ovarian cancer.