These reports showed that LINC00662 is highly expressed and plays oncogenic roles in acute myeloid leukemia, gastric cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, and oral squamous cell carcinoma via various mechanisms (Gong et al., 2018; Li et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2019b; Liu et al., 2018; Xu et al., 2019). Here, LINC00662 is linked to gastric cancer.