LDHC and cancer: Some reports demonstrated enhanced LDH-C expression in various tumours such as lung, melanoma, kidney, and breast (Koslowski et al., 2002; Kong et al., 2016; Hua et al., 2017; Chen et al., 2021), and being a promising target for cancer therapy (Thomas et al., 2020; Naik and Decock, 2021).