AJCC	American joint committee on cancer
ANRIL	CDKN2B antisense RNA 1
CCAT1	Colon cancer associated transcript 1
CCND	Cyclin D
CRC	Colorectal cancer
Ct	Cycle threshold
DFS	Disease free survival
EMT	Epithelial to mesenchymal transition
GAS5	Growth arrest-specific 5
HR	Hazard rate
Linc-ROR	Long intergenic non-protein coding regulator of reprogramming
lncRNA	Long non-coding RNA
MALAT1	Metastasis associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1
MIR155HG	MIR155 host gene
MMR	DNA mismatch repair
MT	Non-malignant (mucosa) tissue
OS	Overall survival
PCAT1	Prostate cancer associated transcript 1
q-PCR	Quantitative PCR
RT-PCR	Reverse transcription PCR
SPRY4-IT1	Sprouty homolog 4 intronic transcript 1
TP53	Tumour protein p53
TT	Tumour tissue
TUG1	Taurine up-regulated 1