Lipid metabolites of stearoyl-CoA-desaturase (SCD) activity are abundant in aggressive HCC samples and could promote tumor invasion and tumor incidence (Budhu et al., 2013), and MUFAs are more abundant in CSCs than in their non-stem counterparts (Li et al., 2017; Mukherjee et al., 2017). This evidence concerns the gene SCD and neoplasm.