Long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 1116 (LINC01116), located in the 2q31.1 region, is currently reported to be an extraordinary regulator of proliferation, migration, and invasion of cancer cells (Meng et al., 2020; Cui et al., 2021; Lou et al., 2021; Ren et al., 2021; Zhang et al., 2021a). Here, LINC01116 is linked to cancer.