The strategy adopted in the present work was different from those reported in previous studies (Zhang et al., 2020; Cai et al., 2021; Xu et al., 2021), and we therefore discovered LINC02475 as a new cancer stemness-associated candidate oncogene that was correlated with a poor prognosis of HCC and was screened by bioinformatics analysis based on large sample data. Here, LINC02475 is linked to cancer.