FEZF1 and cancer: For example, FEZF1-AS1, a top overexpressed lncRNA in colorectal cancer, has been found to be involved in the initiation and progression of various cancers including colorectal carcinoma (Chen et al., 2016; Bian et al., 2018), non-small cell lung cancer (Huang et al., 2020) and gastric cancer (Wu et al., 2017).