A panel of five lncRNAs, low expressed in tumor (LET), plasmacytoma variant translocation 1 (PVT1), promoter of CDKN1A antisense DNA damage activated RNA (PANDAR), phosphatase and tensin homolog pseudogene 1 (PTENP1), and linc00963, was able to successfully discriminate non-cancer from RCC patients (AUC = 0.823) and retained their diagnostic ability throughout the different clinical TNM stages, also indicating their utility as early markers for RCC (Wu et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene PTENP1 and renal cell carcinoma.