TERT and prostate cancer: In prostate cancer, highly expressed lncRNA DD3 (PCA3) demonstrated better diagnostic efficiency than another promising biomarker telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT gene) for prostate cancer, and could be easily detected in prostate needle biopsies or bodily fluids such as blood, ejaculate, urine, or prostate massage fluid, thus lncRNA DD3 is a very sensitive and specific biomarker for the detection of prostate tumor cell [43].