It has a relatively low 5-years survival rate and a high incidence, with more than 400,000 newly-diagnosed cases annually worldwide (Luo et al., 2019; Sugimura et al., 2019) LINC00467 expression is upregulated in ESCC tissues and cell lines, and high LINC00467 expression is correlated with the promotion of cell proliferation and inhibition of cell apoptosis. This evidence concerns the gene LINC00467 and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.