Recently, partial functions and mechanisms of LINC01234 (also known as LCAL84) were reported in cancers, such as gastric cancer (Chen et al., 2018), esophageal cancer (Ghaffar et al., 2018), and colorectal adenocarcinoma (He et al., 2018). The gene discussed is LINC01234; the disease is colorectal adenocarcinoma.