In nasopharyngeal cancer, lncRNA MINCR upregulated radioresistance via miR-223/ZEB1 (Zhong et al., 2020), and ZEB1 (zinc finger E-box binding homeobox 1) drives the induction of EMT by activating stem cell characteristics, immune evasion, and epigenetic reprogramming (Zhang et al., 2019c). The gene discussed is MINCR; the disease is nasopharyngeal carcinoma.