In the case of both the MYC (Sikora et al., 1987; Arango et al., 2003; Castell and Larsson, 2015; Boudjadi and Beaulieu, 2016; He et al., 2018b) and EMT (Bates et al., 2007; Vu and Datta, 2017a; Vu and Datta, 2017b; Lamprecht et al., 2018; Ieda et al., 2019; Huang et al., 2020) pathways, many studies have investigated their role in colorectal cancer. Here, MYC is linked to colorectal cancer.