Qin et al. found that the adding of IL-6 to starvation-induced lymphoma U937 cells significantly increased the phosphorylation level of STAT3, while the level of autophagy was significantly downregulated, suggesting that IL-6 inhibits cellular autophagy through activation of the STAT3 signaling pathway (Qin et al., 2022). This evidence concerns the gene IL6 and lymphoma.