To date, many aberrantly expressed lncRNAs have been identified in bladder cancer, including upregulated lncRNAs, H19, MALAT1, SNHG16, TUG1, UCA1, TINCR and Linc-UBC1; and downregulated lncRNAs, BANCR and MEG3 [75–78]. Here, TUG1 is linked to urinary bladder cancer.