FTX and hepatocellular carcinoma: Ftx is involved in lipid (Tsukahara et al., 2017) and carbohydrate metabolism (Janani and Ranjitha Kumari, 2015) and, in HCC, the level of lncRNA Ftx is significantly higher than healthy controls, enhancing glucose consumption, cell proliferation, migration and invasion (Li X. et al., 2018).