LINC00632 and cancer: According to the competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) hypothesis, CDR1as acts as a negative regulator of miR-7 (a widely studied tumor suppressor) and also influence several gene activities (Salmena et al., 2011; Hansen et al., 2013; Memczak et al., 2013; Tay et al., 2014) thereby making CDR1as a focus of cancer research (Kefas et al., 2008; Jung et al., 2012; Kong et al., 2012; Suto et al., 2015).