SNHG8 and esophageal cancer: Similarly, SNHG8 was considered to be an oncogenic factor and was upregulated in various types of cancer (Yuan et al., 2021), such as gastric cancer, melanoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, and esophageal cancer (Shan et al., 2022b; Luan et al., 2022; Wu et al., 2022; Zhu et al., 2022).